Drivers of cars manufactured by General Motors, Ford, Honda and other popular brands say that their insurance rates went up after the companies sent data about their driving behavior to issuers without their knowledge.
Kenn Dahl, 65, is a Seattle-area businessman who told The New York Times that his car insurance costs soared by 21% in 2022 after GM’s OnStar Smart Driver computerized system installed in his Chevy Bolt collected information about the particulars of his driving habits.
Dahl said that his insurance agent told him the price increase was based on data collected by LexisNexis, which compiled a report tracking each and every time he and his wife drove their Chevy Bolt over a six-month period.
This is complete psycho shit - our fuckin' cars are ratting us out?
We don't have any privacy anywhere any more.
Read the rest of this article and see for yourself how fucked we are.
Hey, insurance in one thing, but they would never ever send this info to the feds now would they.............................???
ReplyDelete"You visited a known republican TWICE this month?"
OnStar can't report shit if you pull its fuse.
ReplyDeleteIt’s amazing people didn’t know this. I retired from the insurance industry 12 years ago and this was already a thing. It’s usually called PAYD, pay as you drive. All those black boxes in your car record everything. Accident reconstruction is where it started and then things like onStar made it possible to simply send all that info to your carrier.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone think there’s such a thing as privacy?