GM touts OnStar as a service that will help consumers during an emergency and provide hands-free voice assistance and real-time traffic and navigation. The FTC says that over time, the company has ...

GM and OnStar are facing intense scrutiny over data collection practices, with more than two dozen new lawsuits filed over ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced a new proposal that bans General Motors (GM) and its subscription-based services subsidiary, OnStar, from providing consumer reporting agencies ...

The automaker was accused of collecting drivers' behavior data without their knowledge and providing it to third-party agencies that set insurance rates.

The FTC’s complaint highlighted GM’s allegedly misleading enrollment process for its OnStar service and the Smart Driver feature. These programs collected detailed information about driving ...

Add CarBuzz to your Google News feed. According to the FTC, GM convinced customers to sign up for an OnStar program called Smart Driver. It promised to help drivers improve their driving ...

It took almost a year, but the FTC is finally doing something about it. GM sells a wide range of cars, trucks and SUVs equipped with OnStar technology that has been recording your driving ...

The Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement agreement with General Motors Co. and its OnStar subsidiary for collecting and selling driving behavior data from millions of vehicles in the ...

General Motors will be banned for five years from disclosing data that it collects from drivers to consumer reporting agencies as part of a settlement with the government to resolve claims that the au ...

General Motors and its subsidiary OnStar are banned from selling customer geolocation and driving behavior data for five years, the Federal Trade Commission announced Thursday. For example, one ...

General Motors and its subsidiary OnStar agreed to a settlement that prohibits them from sharing driver location and behavior data with third parties, the Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday.

In a follow-up to a privacy story we've been following closely, the Federal Trade Commission is taking action against General Motors and OnStar over allegations it collected, used and sold ...