GM stops sharing driver data with brokers amid backlash

Customers, wittingly or not, had their driving data shared with insurers.

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[thekaj]

This is really a fallout from weak or absent consumer privacy protection regulations.

I can't fathom this happening in Europe without major consequences for the company that shares driver information without consent.

Anyone from Europe or elsewhere have any insight here?

There are states like California that have privacy laws similar to GDPR. I wonder if this runs afoul of their law.

I think the political reality is that it’ll take multiple larger states passing their own privacy laws before there’s a push by enough companies to just get a single federal law in place so they stop having to track 20 different privacy rules (the fun ones are when laws conflicts between the states, so that one way you do things is legal in one state but illegal in another). But it’s still probably a ways off before “too annoying to deal with all the separate laws” overrides “but we make so much money violating people’s privacy!”