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Your car is spying on you and upping your insurance rates: report

By Thomas A. Smith

The LexisNexis report indicated that the details it had cobbled together were gleaned from the OnStar Smart Driver, the GM-owned subscription service that records driver information such as total miles driven, hard braking incident and other aspects of driver behavior.

According to its web site, OnStar Smart Driver provides driving insights on how you can become a smarter, safer driver while enabling users to earn badges by completing challenges, build on streaks specific to different driving habits and view all your data in an intuitive dashboard.

It felt like a betrayal, Dahl said. They re taking information that I didn t realize was going to be shared and screwing with our insurance.

It s not just electric vehicle owners who are complaining.

via nypost.com

Oh dear. They’re interfering with the sacred relationship between Man and His Car. And presumably Woman and Her Car as well. This is tyranny. This is not a joke.