LANSING, Mich. — Michigan will collect $7,205,319 as its share of a $220 million settlement between General Motors and 36 states over driving data the automaker gathered from customers and passed along to insurers, Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office announced Thursday in Lansing.
From 2016 through 2024, GM signed millions of drivers up for its Smart Driver feature, which logged habits such as hard braking, fast starts, speeding and when trips happened. The states said GM promised that information would not go to insurance companies without clear consent, yet sold it to data brokers whose buyers included insurers that could raise premiums based on it.
Investigators also said many customers were enrolled at the dealership when they bought a vehicle, sometimes with staff clicking through the terms for them, while GM rewarded dealers for OnStar sign-ups. A flaw in the OnStar app told more than 370,000 enrolled drivers they were not in the program.
Once the court order kicks in on the last day of November, GM must get clear permission before it collects or shares driving and location data and must run a data privacy program with outside reviews. The deal does not pay drivers directly; a separate national class-action suit seeking money is still pending. GM said it ended Smart Driver in 2024.
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