The battle over who owns and controls your driving data is being fought in court. General Motors is facing a multi-district lawsuit that claims the Detroit-based automaker allegedly violated its customers’s privacy by collecting and selling their driving information without proper consent. However, GM is arguing it did not violate their privacy because “driving a vehicle—which necessarily involves conduct that takes place on public roads—cannot form the basis for any privacy-based claim.”
According to GM’s filing to dismiss the case, “states do not permit invasion of privacy claims that are based on public conduct,” even though specific state laws vary regarding invasion of privacy claims. In Georgia, where this case is filed, observing someone “in a public place is not an intrusion upon one’s privacy.”
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