General Motors Sued by Texas AG for Scooping-Up & Selling Driver’s Private Data to Corporations & Insurance Companies
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against General Motors (GM) for ‘deceptive and unlawful business practices’ related to the automobile manufacturing giant’s collection and sale of private driving data of Texans that chose to own modern vehicles to corporations and insurance companies.
“Our investigation revealed that General Motors has engaged in egregious business practices that violated Texans’ privacy and broke the law. We will hold them accountable,” Attorney General Paxton said in a press release Tuesday. “Companies are using invasive technology to violate the rights of our citizens in unthinkable ways. Millions of American drivers wanted to buy a car, not a comprehensive surveillance system that unlawfully records information about every drive they take and sells their data to any company willing to pay for it.”
Infowars previously reported on the spy devices known as modern automobiles.
Modern automobiles, roughly vehicles manufactured in about the last decade, are often equipped with a variety of systems including technology that can control where and when drivers are allowed to drive, track driver’s eyeballs, record occupant conversations, collect genetic and health information, biometrics and weight of drivers and passengers, causing auto insurance premiums to be increased and even monitor driver’s sexual activity.
While the lawsuit only involves Texans who made the decision to drive around in spy devices made by GM instead of older cars, the number of individuals affected number 1.5 million.
“General Motors used technology installed in most 2015 model year or newer GM vehicles to collect, record, analyze, and transmit highly detailed driving data about each time a driver used their vehicle. General Motors sold this information to several other companies, including to at least two companies for the purpose of generating “Driving Scores” about GM’s customers and selling these scores to insurance companies,” the Attorney General’s press release said Tuesday. “General Motors deceived many of its customers when it compelled them to enroll in its products, including OnStar Smart Driver, as part of its vehicle “onboarding” process and told them that failing to enroll would result in the deactivation of their vehicle’s safety features. Unbeknownst to customers, however, by enrolling in GM’s products, they were “agreeing” to General Motors’ collection and sale of their data. Despite lengthy and convoluted disclosures, General Motors never informed its customers of its actual conduct—the systematic collection and sale of their highly detailed driving data.”
Paxton opened an investigation into several automobile manufacturers for this reason in June.
“The Texas Deceptive Trade Practices – Consumer Protection Act authorizes the Office of the Attorney General to investigate false, misleading, or deceptive acts or practices,” the June press release from the Attorney General said. “Accordingly, car manufacturers and the third parties to whom they sold data are being instructed to produce documents relevant to their conduct. Additionally, they are being instructed to produce documents showing the disclosures they made to customers about the extent of their data collection practices and subsequent sale of their customers’ data.”
Denver7 News reported that new cars monitor their owners sex lives.
Paxton said that people who decided to own these spy machines on wheels were becoming worried about their purchases after discovering what they actually are.
“The technology in modern vehicles enables manufacturers to collect millions of data points about the people driving them,” Attorney General Paxton said in a June press release. “Recently, consumers have grown extremely concerned that their driving data is being reported to their insurance company without their knowledge or authorization. These reports of the invasive and unmitigated collection and sale of data without consumer consent are disturbing, and they merit a thorough investigation and appropriate enforcement.”
While cars of the last decade spy on their owners locations, conversations, body weight and sex life, cars of the future will directly plug into the brains of their owners in order to change them and affect how they drive.
WARNING— SHOCK VIDEOS: German And UK Governments Use Children To Lure Islamicists To Europe For Sex
UK Pensioner Jailed 18 Months For Calling Police ‘C**ts’ & Chanting ‘Who The F**k Is Allah?’
A 61-year-old man from the UK has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison for shouting obscenities at police officers during a recent protest.
British newspaper The Guardian basically doxxed the man, David Spring, by providing his street name in an article about his imprisonment.
Spring recently retired from his 42-year career as a train driver to care for his ill wife, but now he’ll be spending time behind bars until 2026.
That’s a lengthy sentence for the nonviolent “crime” of waving a finger at riot cops and shouting, “cunts,” at them.
The incident took place in Whitehall where citizens gathered to voice their frustrations about mass migration taking a toll on their city and country.
“Spring’s role in the disorder was shown on police body worn camera footage in court where he was seen making threatening and hostile gestures towards police, calling officers ‘c****’ and joining in chants of ‘you’re not English anymore’ and ‘who the f*** is Allah,’” reports the Guardian.
“Allah, Allah, who f*ck is Allah!” If you sing this in UK you will be arrested. It seems like a joke but it’s not. pic.twitter.com/arRxkoPjPt
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) August 13, 2024
Spring told arresting officers last week, “I didn’t go up to London to riot. I went to complain about people put up in hotels.”
The judge who sentenced Spring said his actions had encouraged people “to engage in disorder” and that the harsh sentence was meant to make an example so others are apparently deterred from engaging in free speech at future demonstrations.
“What you did could and it seems did encourage others to engage in disorder,” the judge stated.
A former political strategist behind the X account The Stark Naked Brief pointed out even UK laws don’t allow for arrests over swearing at police officers.
The account’s post also noted the judge didn’t appear confident in his ruling because he used the words “could” and “seems.”
“This is not indicative of a strong burden of proof,” the post stated.
Some context on the Brit who was supposedly jailed for saying “who the f*ck is Allah”…
— The Stark Naked Brief. (@StarkNakedBrief) August 14, 2024
His name is David Spring.
He was a train driver for 42 years and recently retired.
According to reports, he got sentenced under a violent disorder charge not a vague “hate speech” charge.… pic.twitter.com/PX1FQ3RE6z
American activist Marc Emery pointed out Spring may be in physical danger while serving time since he’s being falsely mislabeled a far-right racist and UK jails have large Muslim populations.
Englishman David Spring got 18 months in prison today for this. Could be a death sentence for someone labeled as far right in UK prisons. Here’s what he did: https://t.co/0BKBPOI5mR pic.twitter.com/2952geBlo4
— Marc Emery (@MarcScottEmery) August 13, 2024
Footage of a UK judge recently went viral as it showed the dystopian state of the British government where another individual was jailed for 20 months over a Facebook post that stated the fact that many migrants go on to rape people in their new countries.
Watch Alex Jones’ take on the clip below:
The nightmarish assault on free speech in the UK will soon come to America if Democrats are able to somehow stop Donald Trump from retaking the White House.
Ukraine Accused Of Using Chemical Weapons In Kursk Region
Ukrainian forces have been accused of using chemical weapons in an attack on a group of power company workers in Russia’s Kursk Region. During a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, the Kursk […]
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Musk Invites Kamala Harris To Be Interviewed
After speaking at length with former US President Donald Trump, Elon Musk has now invited Vice President Kamala Harris to be interviewed. Musk has proposed to interview Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on his X […]
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US Voting Machines Proven Hackable at Conference
Computer hackers attending DEF CON over the weekend in Las Vegas demonstrated that the voting machines used in U.S. elections are vulnerable to hacking, although no fix will be made before the 2024 presidential election in November.
“And just like every year since the Voting Village began almost a decade ago, attendees found problems,” Politico said Monday. “Organizers of the Voting Village intend to put out a full report in the coming weeks detailing the vulnerability findings from this cycle, and according to Voting Village co-founder Harri Hursti, these vulnerabilities ran “multiple pages” as of Saturday afternoon. While Hursti would not comment on the exact problems found, the amount was fairly consistent with previous years.”
Alex Jones exposed voting machine vulnerabilities in 2002.
While vulnerabilities in the computerized voting machines are found year after year, little is being done about it.
“Voting Village organizers are frustrated that, despite years of security findings, voting machines vendors aren’t moving more quickly to make fixes. ‘There’s so much basic stuff that should be happening and is not happening, so yes I’m worried about things not being fixed, but they haven’t been fixed for a long time, and I’m also angry about it,’ Hursti said during a break in the day,” Politico said Monday.
In 2008 Alex Jones interviewed Bev Harris, founder of Black Box Voting, about the ‘hackability’ of U.S. voting machines.
Harris is still battling against the vote fraud industrial complex.
Black Box Voting: 2024 edition
– Introduction –
Black Box Voting: “Any voting system in which the mechanism for recording and tabulating the vote is hidden from the public.”
What method should we use?
“Any mechanism that lets the public authenticate.” (This simple answer is… pic.twitter.com/7JQ8wPl4Iy— Bev Harris (@BevHarrisWrites) August 14, 2024
The revelation that the voting machines used in U.S. elections are not secure is not a recent one.
In 2017 a team at DEF CON demonstrated that it takes only 90 minutes to hack into the machine and vote remotely.
In 2019 it was also reported that DEF CON hackers demonstrated the voting machines can be successfully targeted as well as that voting machine companies have a hostile relationship with the white-hat hackers, leaving the hacker teams resorting to buying the voting machines on eBay.
The fact that buying these machines is something anyone could do is troubling, as black-hat hackers could potentially buy them to find out their vulnerabilities in order to exploit them during a real election, unlike the DEF CON teams which hack the machines at the conference in order to try and get the voting machine companies to fix their products.
NBC News technology correspondent Jacob Ward even reported that many of these voting machines are connected to the internet, yet there exists no political momentum to correct that, something referred to by Ward as ‘extremely alarming’.
Unfortunately voting machine vulnerabilities didn’t end in 2019.
“In 2023, University of Michigan Professor of Computer Science and Engineering J. Halderman, revealed in a Georgia courtroom that Dominion Voting Systems were vulnerable to hacks. His report confirmed that votes can be altered in the Dominion voting machines. In fact, the report reveals that the Dominion software is vulnerable and can be hacked,” The Gateway Pundit said Wednesday.
Astonishingly, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who has been aware of our findings for two years, just announced that the state will not get around to installing Dominion’s security patches until after the 2024 Presidential election. ?https://t.co/bnPXoP6Xc2
— J. Alex Halderman (@jhalderm) June 14, 2023
The Gateway Pundit reported in January that Halderman was able to hack into one brand of voting machine to change the vote totals using only a pen.
Despite the voting machine’s numerous vulnerabilities, some are pushing to vote from smartphones.
Infowars recently reported how one voting machine company’s President and two executives were indicted on bribery and money laundering charges.
Fake Elections, Fake Politicians, Real Demons
Stolen Valor Walz Plays Victim: “You Should Never Denigrate Another Person’s Service Record”
Bragging that he’s “a champion of our men and women in uniform” during a recent labor union conference for government employees, Walz also clapped back at media reports criticizing him for lying about his National Guard service.
Walz: I firmly believe you should never denigrate another person’s service record. Anyone brave enough to put on that uniform for our great country, including my opponent, I just have a few simple words. Thank you for your service and sacrifice pic.twitter.com/PcskL7zgiL
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 13, 2024
“I’m gonna say it again as clearly as I can. I am damn proud of my service to this country. And, I firmly believe you should never denigrate another person’s service record. To anyone brave enough to put on that uniform for our great country, including my opponent, I just have a few simple words. Thank you for your service and sacrifice,” he told the audience.
However, people aren’t denigrating Walz’s service record, they’re exposing the fact that he ditched his National Guard unit just after he learned they’d be sent to fight in the Iraq War.
The complaints are also coming from high-ranking servicemen like Walz’s battalion commander and others.
HOLY SH*T!
— I Meme Therefore I Am ?? (@ImMeme0) August 6, 2024
Minnesota National Guard Leaders Expose Tim Walz for Stolen Valor, Lying About His Rank, and Quitting When His Unit Was Deployed to Iraq.
“As soon as the shots were fired in Iraq, he turned and ran the other way and hung his hat up and quit,” said Tom Behrends, a… pic.twitter.com/14zvDeSPRV
Holy shit, Tim Walz’s Battalion Commander absolutely destroys him over his Stolen Valor. How long is the leftwing media going to keep ignoring all of this? pic.twitter.com/eyu2tnMOUs
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 11, 2024
Footage from 2009 shows the moment a military veteran confronted Walz’s staff about his lies.
STOLEN VALOR: Unearthed video from 2009 shows military veterans confronting Tim Walz’s staff over claims of stolen valor. pic.twitter.com/TBlfQmWngZ
— Dominic Michael Tripi (@DMichaelTripi) August 8, 2024
In a resurfaced video, Walz appeared to claim he suffers from PTSD from serving in Afghanistan despite the fact he never fought there.
BREAKING: In newly obtained tape, then-Rep. Tim Walz tells a gold-star family during hearing on PTSD that he was deployed to Afghanistan in 2004 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, and says he and his troops suffering from mental health issues were “shown the horse… pic.twitter.com/mUzrJJR10S
— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) August 10, 2024
The scandal even led to an online trend where soldiers posted photos of themselves “not being Tim Walz” as they served in overseas wars.
Vets, post your photo of you not being Tim Walz! https://t.co/7hJNW4vWpA pic.twitter.com/OZgjcSGufk
— Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson) August 7, 2024
The whole conversation might be a distraction, as a recent Infowars caller claiming to know Walz personally believes the scandal is being used to cover up the fact that he’s a literal agent of the communist Chinese government and an avid follower of Mao Zedong.
Leave it to a Democrat to lie to the public about something as sacred as military service only to turn around and play the victim after being exposed.