GM settles California lawsuit claiming it sold driving habit data to insurance companies
GM settles California lawsuit claiming it sold driving habit data to insurance companies
通用汽车就“向保险公司出售驾驶习惯数据”的加州诉讼达成和解
General Motors has agreed to pay $12.75 million to settle a California data privacy lawsuit that accused the automaker of selling driver location and driver data, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a proposed settlement filed on Friday, GM agreed to stop selling customer information to data brokers for five years and must give California drivers the ability to stop its OnStar service from collecting location data.
据路透社此前报道，通用汽车（General Motors）已同意支付 1275 万美元，以和解一起加州数据隐私诉讼。该诉讼指控这家汽车制造商出售驾驶员的位置和驾驶数据。在周五提交的一份拟议和解协议中，通用汽车同意在五年内停止向数据经纪人出售客户信息，并必须允许加州驾驶员阻止其 OnStar 服务收集位置数据。
GM became the subject of several lawsuits after a 2024 report by The New York Times revealed that automakers, including GM, had been sharing driving data — such as speed, hard braking, and rapid acceleration — with data brokers and insurance companies, which reportedly据称 adjusted pricing based on this information.
在《纽约时报》2024 年的一篇报道披露包括通用汽车在内的多家汽车制造商一直在与数据经纪人和保险公司共享驾驶数据（如车速、急刹车和急加速）后，通用汽车成为了多起诉讼的对象。据报道，保险公司会根据这些信息调整保费。
The Federal Trade Commission finalized its settlement with GM and its OnStar subsidiary in January, preventing the companies from disclosing driver data to third-party brokers for five years.
美国联邦贸易委员会（FTC）于今年 1 月完成了与通用汽车及其子公司 OnStar 的和解协议，禁止这两家公司在五年内向第三方经纪人披露驾驶员数据。
Under its settlement with California, GM must provide “clear and conspicuous” privacy notices about data collection when drivers enroll in OnStar. The automaker is also required to delete all driver data covered by the lawsuit and ask for customer consent before collecting or using a person’s driving data.
根据与加州达成的和解协议，通用汽车在驾驶员注册 OnStar 服务时，必须提供关于数据收集的“清晰且显眼”的隐私声明。该汽车制造商还被要求删除诉讼涵盖的所有驾驶员数据，并在收集或使用个人驾驶数据前征得客户同意。
“This agreement addresses Smart Driver, a product we discontinued in 2024, and reinforces steps we’ve taken to strengthen our privacy practices,” GM spokesperson Charlotte McCoy says in an emailed statement to The Verge. “Vehicle connectivity is central to a modern and safe driving experience, which is why we’re committed to being clear and transparent with our customers about our practices and the choices and control they have over their information.”
通用汽车发言人夏洛特·麦考伊（Charlotte McCoy）在发给《The Verge》的电子邮件声明中表示：“该协议针对的是我们在 2024 年停用的 Smart Driver 产品，并加强了我们为提升隐私保护措施所采取的步骤。车辆互联是现代安全驾驶体验的核心，这就是为什么我们致力于向客户明确、透明地说明我们的做法，以及他们对自身信息所拥有的选择权和控制权。”
“Today’s settlement requires General Motors to abandon these illegal practices and underscores the importance of the data minimization in California’s privacy law — companies can’t just hold on to data and use it later for another purpose,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta says in the press release.
加州总检察长罗伯·邦塔（Rob Bonta）在新闻稿中表示：“今天的和解协议要求通用汽车放弃这些非法行为，并强调了加州隐私法中‘数据最小化’原则的重要性——企业不能仅仅为了以后将其用于其他目的而保留数据。”