What Verisk Analytics does with your data

What it collects and does with your data

• Verisk bought driving data from GM, Honda, and Hyundai and sold Driving Behavior Data History Reports to insurers; it shut the product down in April 2024. Verisk confirmed contracts did not require the data be used only for discounts.

Sensitive data

• driving behavior

Enforcement and litigation

1 matter in the research. Where the research says alleged, pending, or settled without admitting wrongdoing, so does this page.

• Co-defendant in GM MDL No. 3115; motion to dismiss largely denied 2026-04-22. Also defendant in Hyundai/Kia FCRA class action filed 2024-07-29. Status: pending.

Who else holds your data

Organizations holding a copy of your data, as the research counts them: at least 3. Verisk, the automaker, and insurers buying reports.

Third parties: Named: GM, Honda, Hyundai as sources; insurers as buyers

Companies the research links to Verisk Analytics

• General Motors (OnStar Smart Driver), confirmed. "GM publicly confirmed sharing Smart Driver data with Verisk from 2015 to 2024 and with LexisNexis Risk Solutions from 2018 to 2024; GM declined to tell Senator Wyden how many cars or what it was paid. The NYT reported 8 million vehicles." GM confirmed the sharing, 2015 to 2024.
• Hyundai Motor America (Driving Score / Bluelink), confirmed. "Hyundai shared data from 1.7 million vehicles with Verisk between 2018 and 2024; Verisk paid Hyundai $1,043,315.69, or 61 cents per car." Hyundai confirmed default enrollment into Driving Score, which included sharing with Verisk.
• American Honda Motor Co. (Driver Feedback), reported. "Between 2020 and 2024 Honda shared data from 97,000 cars with Verisk, which paid $25,920, or 26 cents per car, without informed consent; the Verisk disclosure was buried past the first page of legal terms." From the Wyden-Markey letter to the FTC.

When you pick one of these companies' programs or apps in the calculator, Verisk Analytics is added to the organizations holding a copy of your data.

The research counts 3 for this record: Verisk, the automaker, insurers buying reports.

Data practices score

9 of 15. Five components, each 0 to 3. How the score works

Sells or shares

3

Enforcement

1

Retail media scale

0

Sensitive data

3

Opt-out friction

2

Estimated emissions for one person

Research gaps

• Verisk resale revenue.
• GM volume.