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Little Rock, Arkansas, there is a lawsuit against General Motors.

Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin announced that his office is suing General Motors.

Why?

For selling data collected by its OnStore, OnStar subsidiary to third parties.

Now, one of the things that OnStar does, and it's in GM cars, and it's kind of a neat product that's attached to the car, is it is reading you.

In other words, it's almost like a black box in and of itself.

And when something goes wrong, if the car gets into an accident, you hit a ditch, for example,

rolling in a ditch, it will immediately alert a 911 operator or some other agency that then calls

you, is everything okay? And if there's no answer, or I'm in an accident, or I've been hurt,

they then call whatever authorities are necessary.

According to this lawsuit, GM monetized or monitored and sold customer driving data to third-party

brokers for more than 10 years, including start and end drive times, vehicle speed, late

night driving happens, I have its distant driven breaking data.

And then those parties sold that information to insurance companies who use it either to

deny customers coverage or increase their rates.

So despite advertising OnStar as offering the benefits of better driving safety,

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