GM agrees to pay $220 million over sale of drivers' habit data

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General Motors has agreed to pay $220 million to resolve claims that it illegally sold driver and location information to data brokers. The settlement resolves a complaint brought by a coalition of 36 US attorneys general. Under the agreement, GM must limit the driving data it collects and obtain express consent from drivers before gathering their information. The allegations center on GM's discontinued Smart Driver program, which tracked metrics such as acceleration, braking, and trip length, and which allegedly passed that data to brokers that sold it to insurance companies.

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