GM Allegedly Spied On Drivers And Sold Their Data, Now It's Paying A $220M Settlement - The Autopian
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After allegedly selling driver data to third parties, GM has agreed to a $220 million settlement. Here's what this means.

If you had a suspicion your modern car is spying on you, you’re probably right. Vehicles these days are connected to the Internet of Things, able to feed data back to the cloud in real time. Once it’s there, what happens next may not be something you explicitly agreed to. Now the tide is starting…

  • Tempus Fugit@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I genuinely don’t know. I drive a 2017 Japanese car that I don’t believe collects telemetry or data of any kind. I plan to drive this car until the wheels fall off.

    • phineas1134@reddthat.com
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      2 days ago

      You might be surprised. I have a 2017 chevy and it definitely does report data back to GM. I have a close friend that works there and was able to confirm this. I thought there was no way since it was old, and it has no internet access of any kind that I can see. But it uses the cell network to report back data. I suspect it reports alot less interesting data than new cars. But for sure, it is sending data back to GM over the cell network.