"General Motors sold the data of California drivers without their knowledge or consent," says California's attorney general , "and despite numerous statements reassuring drivers that it would not do so." In 2024, The New York Times " reported that automakers including GM were sharing information about their customers' driving behavior with insurance companies," remembers TechCrunch , "and that some customers were concerned that their insurance rates had gone up as a result." Now General Motors "has reached a privacy-related settlement with a group of law enforcement agencies led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta..." The settlement announcement from Bonta's office similarly alleges that GM sold "the names, contact information, geolocation data, and driving behavior data of hundreds of thousands of Californians" to Verisk Analytics and LexisNexis Risk Solutions, which are both data brokers.…