GM will pay California $12.75M for selling driver data

Violations like this should be total revenue (not profit) from the act, plus a set % fine. The people that ordered it to happen need to be charged and tried under the law for their blatant and knowingly criminal acts.

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phxees@reddit

It is good that they have to stop selling data for 5 years. That’s a bigger penalty than what they have to pay.

Of course GM will interpret that penalty to mean stop selling verifiably California resident data. Although GM will just make the data not California resident data by removing the state and zip code from the addresses.

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Easy-End-2852@reddit

Call me crazy but I think it should be jail time for the leadership that approved it. Break the law do the time. A fine is abstract and doesn’t sufficiently motivate the corporate leaders to follow the law. Real people were harmed in this and it was done intentionally.

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fcwolfey@reddit

Cost of doing business, yay unregulated capitalism!

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nyanslider@reddit

Is it really capitalism if you can't use capital to reduce or remove restrictions to create more capital?

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Waste-Following9594@reddit

That data stuff is the part that always gets buried until people make noise about it.

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NathanScott94@reddit

Oh good California gets the money, not the people who were exploited.

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rogie513@reddit

I bet they made billions on it haha. There are no laws about this kind if stuff in reality.

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DaRiddler70@reddit

And California will blow the money in 2.7s.

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Andrewonice@reddit

GM buys drivers data for $12.75M

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Available_Quote_5567@reddit

Then sells it for much more

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FSCK_Fascists@reddit

notice how whenever our rights are violated, its always others who get "made whole" in the lawsuit?

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SkellyJelly33@reddit

Slap on the wrist

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Hrmerder@reddit

So...... What do the actual DRIVERS get?

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wild_cat5@reddit

That’s it?

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generalistinterests@reddit

Aka a house in Beverly Hills.

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IsaacM42@reddit

Say what you will about california but you get more consumer protections than any other state (which isnt saying much)

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savageotter@reddit

Now what about the other companies that did it?

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Quick_Coyote_7649@reddit

Stellnatis ànd GM are competing to see who can do the most tom foolery

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V8-Turbo-Hybrid@reddit

Username checks out.

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Huge_World4801@reddit

What about the affected people? Lol

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opeth_close@reddit

Not even a slap on the wrist. Joke of a fee for clown Government Motors

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