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GM order hints at US FTC focus on geolocation data, data-use limits

By Mike Swift ( January 15, 2026, 01:05 GMT | Comment) -- The US Federal Trade Commission has finalized a 20-year privacy order against General Motors and OnStar that will limit how the US carmaker with the largest market share can collect detailed location information about how, where and when millions of US consumers drive their cars and trucks. Leaving intact a wide ranging privacy order unveiled in the last hours of the Biden Administration, the Republican-led FTC ended a year of uncertainty about whether it would move forward with a settlement originally backed by FTC Democrats, signaling that the enforcer may continue to approve privacy settlements that limit the future use of consumer data by US companies.General Motors is now barred for five years from sharing data about driver behavior with consumer reporting agencies, with a 180-day clock starting Wednesday on a US Federal Trade Commission order that requires the carmaker to destroy driver data it collected without consumer consent....

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