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How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied on
Kashmir Hill: This privacy reporter and her husband bought a Chevrolet Bolt in December. Two risk-profiling companies had been getting detailed data about their driving ever since.
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... Automakers have been selling data about the driving behavior of millions of people to the insurance industry. In the case of General Motors, affected drivers weren't informed, and the tracking led insurance companies to charge some of them more for premiums. I'm the reporter who broke the story. I recently discovered that I'm among the drivers who was spied on. My husband and I bought a G.M.-manufactured 2023 Chevrolet Bolt in December. This month, my husband received his "consumer disclosure files" from LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Verisk, two data brokers that work with the insurance industry and that G.M. had been providing with data. (He requested the files after my article came out in March, heeding the advice I had given to readers.) My husband's LexisNexis report had a breakdown of the 203 trips we had taken in the car since January, including the distance, the start and end times, and how often we hard-braked or accelerated rapidly. The Verisk report, which dated back to mid-December and recounted 297 trips, had a high-level summary at the top: 1,890.89 miles driven; 4,251 driving minutes; 170 hard-brake events; 24 rapid accelerations, and, on a positive note, zero speeding events. ...
My husband and I bought a G.M.-manufactured 2023 Chevrolet Bolt in December. This month, my husband received his "consumer disclosure files" from LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Verisk, two data brokers that work with the insurance industry and that G.M. had been providing with data. (He requested the files after my article came out in March, heeding the advice I had given to readers.)
My husband's LexisNexis report had a breakdown of the 203 trips we had taken in the car since January, including the distance, the start and end times, and how often we hard-braked or accelerated rapidly. The Verisk report, which dated back to mid-December and recounted 297 trips, had a high-level summary at the top: 1,890.89 miles driven; 4,251 driving minutes; 170 hard-brake events; 24 rapid accelerations, and, on a positive note, zero speeding events. ...
#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-23 04:35 PM | Reply
I drive a Honda.
#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-04-27 12:33 AM | Reply
Government Motors was never meant to be trusted.
#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-04-27 12:58 AM | Reply
They should have let GM fail 2008. They've been making ---- for vehicles since the late 60's.
#4 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2024-04-27 06:24 PM | Reply
This was more old school, but I remember reading about some mafia dudes who got indicted because they left their OnStar turned on and the feds caught them talking about a guy they'd recently whacked, among other crimes.
#5 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-04-28 02:28 AM | Reply
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