General Motors has agreed to pay $220 million to settle claims by a coalition of state attorneys general, including Arizona's, that it sold information about how customers drove to data brokers whose data then reached insurance companies.
The settlement, announced Thursday, centers on GM's Smart Driver program, which ran from 2016 to 2024. The states said GM pitched the program as a way to help drivers improve their safety and told them their data would not go to insurers without their consent.
The attorneys general alleged the company did not properly get that consent, and that in some cases dealership employees accepted terms on customers' behalf when a car was bought.
"Drivers were enrolled in data tracking without their knowledge," Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a statement. She said her office will keep enforcing the state's consumer protection laws.
How much Arizona gets
Reports differ on Arizona's share. The Center Square put it at $5.9 million, while KJZZ reported about $7 million. Mayes' spokesperson, Richie Taylor, told The Center Square the money is a civil penalty paid to the state, and that a separate class-action lawsuit is pending on behalf of GM customers.
Whether individual Arizona drivers will receive any of the state's share is not known, he said, and the office had no estimate of how many Arizonans were enrolled.
