{"id":63347,"date":"2026-02-27T13:09:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63347"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:09:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:09:50","slug":"cns-iowa-accuses-general-motors-of-not-disclosing-onstar-data-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63347","title":{"rendered":"CNS: Iowa accuses General Motors of not disclosing OnStar data sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CNS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/iowa-accuses-general-motors-of-not-disclosing-onstar-data-sharing\/\">Iowa accuses General Motors of not disclosing OnStar data sharing<\/a> by Rox Laird (&#8220;General Motors failed to disclose to car buyers that driving data collected by the automaker\u2019s OnStar program installed in its vehicles is sold to auto insurance companies and other third parties without consumers\u2019 awareness or consent, Iowa claimed Thursday. OnStar is pitched by GM as improving driver safety by collecting a wide array of data, including speed, seatbelt usage, driving habits and location. What consumers are not clearly informed of, the Iowa attorney general claims, is that their vehicles were &#8216;secretly spying on them,&#8217; and this data was sold to third-party data brokers who sold it to insurance companies that used the data to raise rates, deny coverage or cancel policies.&#8221;)  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In short: All car computers are likely snitches. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNS: Iowa accuses General Motors of not disclosing OnStar data sharing by Rox Laird (&#8220;General Motors failed to disclose to car buyers that driving data collected by the automaker\u2019s OnStar program installed in its vehicles is sold to auto insurance &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63347\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-third-party-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63348,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63347\/revisions\/63348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}