The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleged General Motors (NYSE:GM) and its subsidiary OnStar over unauthorized sharing of driver data with third parties. The U.S. automaker has agreed to a five ...

Jim Ganther, CEO of Mosaic Compliance Services, discusses the decision to strike down the FTC's CARS rule and its ...

General Motors and OnStar are barred from selling customer geolocation and driving behavior data for the next five years under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The agreement ...

The Fifth Circuit did not reach the merits of the CARS Rule. Rather, it found that the FTC failed to first provide the required notice and opportunity for public comment before finalizing the rule.

Class action lawsuits against General Motors, OnStar, and data brokers LexisNexis and Verisk Analytics have been consolidated in a Georgia federal court. In January, the FTC placed a five-year ban ...

According to Troutman Pepper Locke, on Jan. 27, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an opinion vacating the FTC’s CARS Rule after two major automobile trade associations ...

In the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) first action related to connected vehicle data, the agency announced that it reached a settlement with General Motors (“GM”) over GM’s ...

The FTC’s CARS Rule, designed to protect car buyers from scams, was overturned by a U.S. court. Learn what this means for ...