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The Verge · September 13, 2026

Your car is selling your data

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Generating insurance risk profiles from collected driver behavior data

The Federal Trade Commission issued a five-year ban preventing General Motors from selling driver behavior data to third-party brokers after revelations that telemetry collected via connected vehicle systems was used to generate insurance risk profiles without clear consumer consent. Reports from Mozilla and Consumer Reports reveal this practice is widespread across the automotive industry, where complex, overlapping privacy policies and embedded systems obscure pervasive tracking and data monetization. For faculty, this highlights critical regulatory, security, and data governance failures across modern connected IoT ecosystems.

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Instructors can explore whether individual access and deletion rights can effectively protect consumer privacy compared to strict data minimization mandates when complex, multi-system consent flows are involved.

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