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GM to pay $220 million to settle allegations it violated consumers' privacy

Reuters
GM to pay $220 million to settle allegations it violated consumers' privacy

Oct 29 (Reuters) - ‌General Motors will pay $220 million ​to ‌settle allegations that ‌it illegally sold consumers' private driver ‌behavior data and location information to third parties, Washington state's ⁠attorney general ‌said on Thursday.

Washington ⁠Attorney General Nick Brown ​said the state co-led a ​coalition of 36 ​attorneys ‌general in the case ​against GM. ⁠He said ‌recipients of the ​consumer ​data included brokers who sold the data to insurers, which ‌then used the data in ‌part to set ​insurance rates.

(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York, Editing ‌by Franklin Paul)