OnStar Announces Reversal of Controversial Vehicle Data Collection Proposals : Privacy & Information Security Law Blog On September 27, 2011, OnStar announced<http://media.gm.com/content/media/us/en/gm/news.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2011/Sep/0927_onstar>it was reversing proposed changes to its Terms and Conditions that would have allowed the company to continue to receive data from former subscribers’ vehicles unless they specifically opted out. OnStar’s current Privacy Statement <http://www.onstar.com/web/portal/privacy>indicates that the GM subsidiary collects information regarding its customers’ vehicle operation, location, approximate speed, collision data and safety belt usage in connection with OnStar’s in-vehicle GPS navigation and emergency response services, and that the company “may share or sell” any of this data in anonymized form with third parties. OnStar recently notified customers by email that it would continue to collect data from former subscribers, and that it reserved the right to distribute such data to third parties. The announcement prompted a swift and strong reaction from members of Congress skeptical of the proposed policy changes. http://bit.ly/pVVpAP Source: http://www.huntonprivacyblog.com/2011/09/articles/general/onstar-announces-reversal-of-controversial-vehicle-data-collection-proposals/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+PrivacyInformationSecurityLawBlog+(Privacy+%26+Information+Security+Law+Blog) See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/pVVpAP+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
