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Senators Ron Wyden of Oregon and Edward Markey of Massachusetts have conducted a recent investigation that lifts the lid on the sort of driver data exchanging hands and the measly sums it is sold for.
Honda paid just $25,920 over four years for information about 97,000 cars, which works out to 26 cents per car.
GM withheld the exact figures it was making, but sources close to The New York Times claimed that the automaker sold data on over eight million cars in the "low millions of dollars ".
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