General Motors accused of selling data on car owners to insurance companies without consent

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit alleging that General Motors is selling data on its car owners' driving habits and selling that information to insurers without consumers' consent or knowledge.

GM says Smart Driver was a gamified app-based program using the OnStar service that gave feedback and awarded digital badges for good driving while also passing that data to insurance companies.

GM severed its relationships with LexisNexis and Verisk Analytics and has since brought in a chief trust and privacy officer.

GM plans to stop offering Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in its infotainment systems.

Mozilla Foundation : All the brands collect more information than they need and claim 84 percent share your data while 19 percent say they can sell your data.

Tesla is the worst for gathering and handling car owner's data, according to the Mozilla Foundation .

If you don't own the data generated by your car, do you really own it? We would suggest that if your information is that valuable, then you should be paid for it if you consent.

GM has an opportunity to lead the industry here by turning a public and customer relations disaster into lessons learned publicly and making itself the gold standard for privacy.