If you had a suspicion your modern car is spying on you, you’re probably right. Vehicles these days are connected to the Internet of Things, able to feed data back to the cloud in real time. Once it’s there, what happens next may not be something you explicitly agreed to. Now the tide is starting…
that $220M is pennies compared to what they got from selling that data
General Motors reported a net income attributable to stockholders of $2.7 billion for the year 2025, which was a significant decline from $6 billion in 2024.
That doesn’t address his point. Just because they suck in every other part of their business doesn’t mean they failed to make lots of money off your data.
My point is they still made billions and were fined a tiny fraction of that in comparison.
without all that data they would be in the negative.
Just one more reason to never buy garbage american cars. I learned my lesson after my first. Never trust american companies, ever.
Honestly, I’d suggest first finding which cars have guides to remove or disable that shit and go from there.
