A car dealer is not going to pass up a sale because the customer won’t agree to the manufacturer collecting and selling the customers data.

Sure with software the company can just prevent you from using their product. But a physical item such as a vehicle? Please.

Besides GM was order to allow people to opt-out. They can’t force data collection on you like Google can.

That goes without saying. And I’m at the point where if people don’t care enough to check that kind of stuff, then I don’t care enough to worry about them.

My 2025 moto is “you have no excuse to be ignorant anymore.”

Legally, only if you let them. Illegally, what’s the point of the conversation on the first place?

The settlement also requires GM to obtain consent from customers before collecting their driving behavior data, and allow them to request and delete their data if they choose.

I’m convinced the reason all my drives used to fail is because I would leave the PC on, and only reboot for updates. Otherwise I would just put them to sleep. Three years later, I turn off the PC every night and haven’t had a failed drive since.