This episode is the research companion to the Aware Trade Investigation: GM Tied Your Emergency Rescue Button to a Data Sale You Never Agreed To. The investigation covers how OnStar’s safety pitch enabled GM to sell driving data to LexisNexis and Verisk for insurance risk scoring, the FTC’s final order, and California’s record $12.75 million settlement under the CCPA.
This episode goes deeper into the science: the inward-facing cameras now mandated under Section 24220 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to track eye movement and drowsiness, the ECG sensors embedded in steering wheels and ballistic cardiography sensors in seatbacks that read a driver’s heartbeat through touch and posture alone, and the millimeter-wave radar in seat belts and Affectiva-style emotion AI that can infer a driver’s stress, fatigue, or mood in real time. No solutions here, just the full picture.
