OnStar is selling driver behavior and location information.

GM doesn’t tell drivers that its OnStar assistance service doubles as a privacy-invading revenue producer, but it should. It should advertise how it surreptitiously steals personal and vehicle data from cars and sells it to police and other bidders without the consent of GM owners. Using its built-in electronics, OnStar profits from status information from GM cars even when drivers do not subscribe to the service. This is not the first time Big Brother and Big Corporations joined forces to betray consumers.

Terms and Conditions

At first, OnStar promised to only collect location information and other details from subscribers as a result of a theft or other emergency. The company recently updated those terms to give it the right to collect and sell information from any car equipped with OnStar without the owner’s knowledge, even without a subscription.

Calling Big Brother… Come In Please…

Onstar now can give information about vehicle speed, seat belt use, ravel habits and other information to police who will gladly intercept drivers at any location to write them a ticket. Insurance companies will love to know about drivers who commute further than they admit and never use a seatbelt. Thanks to OnStar’s greed and willful violation of the public trust, insurance rates for thousands of drivers can surreptitiously increase.  According to blogger Jonathan Zdziarski, these new terms are just the tip of the iceberg.

You are Warned

Every GM driver equipped with OnStar should visit their dealer to have OnStar either disabled or removed. . If you don’t your wallet and your liberty could be impaired.

Just remember, when you finally realize that big corporations and Big Brother all know where you are and what you are doing, you read about it here.

http://www.autoblog.com/2011/09/21/gms-onstar-now-spying-on-your-car-for-profit-even-after-you-uns/