General Motors has agreed to pay $220 million to 35 states and the District of Columbia to settle a major privacy lawsuit over the company’s sale of driver data from its Smart Driver program, which dealerships offered to drivers from 2016 to 2024. In 2024, The New York Times published a damning investigation into the
Meta Platforms agreed Wednesday to pay up to $17.1 billion to settle a landmark lawsuit brought by 29 states alleging the company deliberately engineered Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children, marking the largest single settlement in the company’s history and the biggest tech-industry payout ever recorded in a single case. Meta’s press release
