General Motors agreed to pay $220 million to settle allegations co-led by Washington and a coalition of 36 attorneys general regarding the illegal sale of driver behavior and location data to...

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        "author": "Alextricity",
        "excerpt": "Pocket change and the cost of doing business. Long ago they realized they could get away with it long enough that the money they’d make would make whatever fines that might come up later an utter joke.\n\n This doesn’t help anyone affected by them doing so, and class actions generally get people, what, $30 at best anyway?",
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        "excerpt": "General Motors will pay $220 million to settle allegations that it illegally sold consumers’ private driver behavior data and location information to third parties, including data brokers, who then sold the data to insurance companies. For many consumers, this data was used by insurance companies in part to set insurance rates.\n\n Washington co-led a coalition of 36 attorneys general in the case ag",
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        "excerpt": "So that's the business model now? Sell data for billions and pay a 10-30% tax disguised as a fine, then business as usual?",
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