GM banned from selling your driving data for five years
GM banned from selling your driving data for five years
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GM banned from selling your driving data for five years
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So they can still collect it, use it for internal purposes, then after 5 years still sell it?
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Thats how I read it.
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Legally, only if you let them. Illegally, what's the point of the conversation on the first place?
The settlement also requires GM to obtain consent from customers before collecting their driving behavior data, and allow them to request and delete their data if they choose.
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Sadly I expect They'll just add a very innocuous line and/or checkbox to the EULA for their infotainment system. 99% of people will just tick it even if optional.
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That goes without saying. And I'm at the point where if people don't care enough to check that kind of stuff, then I don't care enough to worry about them.
My 2025 moto is "you have no excuse to be ignorant anymore."
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If you don't agree then you can't use the product. Companies do it all the time. You've said yes everytime. It should be illegal to hold anything hostage like that.
Don't agree with a carmaker using and selling your data? Oh look now the cars computer won't work for you.
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Exactly! That and burying their underhandedness in a 5000-word legal document presented to me on a 8” screen when I first start up my car. It’s an unrealistic expectation the people will read and understand every obnoxiously long EULA they’re presented with. They’re specifically written NOT to be read or understood by the average person, FFS.
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A car dealer is not going to pass up a sale because the customer won't agree to the manufacturer collecting and selling the customers data.
Sure with software the company can just prevent you from using their product. But a physical item such as a vehicle? Please.
Besides GM was order to allow people to opt-out. They can't force data collection on you like Google can.
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Your car will not work if the computer refuses to function.
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Dealers don't make the cars. Dealers will just lie about it.
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I'm curious what the dollar value of this data is per capita. Imagine if you could simply pay $1 for exclusive rights to data collected by GM. Back in reality, they'd go "oops, we sold your data again and hoped you wouldn't notice."
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