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beep@piefed.worldM to Technology@piefed.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

General Motors(GM) paid $12.75 Million penalty for selling driving data of hundreds of thousands of motorists to data brokers, without their consent

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General Motors(GM) paid $12.75 Million penalty for selling driving data of hundreds of thousands of motorists to data brokers, without their consent

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beep@piefed.worldM to Technology@piefed.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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GM just paid a record penalty for breaking California privacy law
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General Motors agreed to pay California a $12 million civil penalty after selling driving data on hundreds of thousands of OnStar users
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    Ahh so this a free paycheck for 8 million, how is this a penalty?

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      Context for the TLDR crowd: they sold the data for $20M and were only fined $12.75M

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      It’s not a penalty it’s a shakedown. Whole fucking system is corrupt.

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    Ridiculous.

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    Collecting your data is why they removed Android Auto and Apple carplay.

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