GM cracks the petty cash box for multistate driver tracking settlement

General Motors’ $220 million multistate settlement highlights the financial and reputational risk of collecting, sharing, or monetizing customer data without clear consent, especially when it involves sensitive telemetry like location, speed, and behavior. For CIOs and technology leaders, the bigger takeaway is that privacy, consent management, and data governance are now board-level business controls—not just compliance tasks—and weak controls can expose enterprises to regulator scrutiny, forced product changes, and long-term trust erosion.