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Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Edward Markey (D-MA) wrote to the FTC, accusing GM, Hyundai, and Honda of selling customers’ driving data to brokers that sells it to car insurance providers.

The Michigan Department of Transportation is conducting an online survey analyzing the safety of the state’s roads and transportation infrastructure for vulnerable users.

General Motors and other automakers are playing fast and loose with data gathered from newer-model, internet-connected vehicles. On this episode of the Stateside podcast we look at how this data is collected, and how it’s funneled to insurance companies, sometimes in violation of privacy policies as customers understand them.

How new vehicles collect data and how that data can be sold to insurance companies, a trip to a Yemini coffee roastery in Dearborn, and a biography on Magic Johnson detailing his childhood in Lansing and time at Michigan State.

Detroit Police say crime in the city dropped last year, with the fewest homicides the city has seen since the 1960s. But that number doesn’t account for population.

You’ve heard that advertisers are keeping track of every online site you visit. They keep track of the data to try to determine what you’re likely to buy.…

Shortly after the election, researchers from the U.S. and Canada got together to start backing up scientific data from federal agencies in the U.S.They’re…

The Next IdeaRob Stephenson, professor and vice chair for research in the Department of Health Behavior and Biological Sciences at the University of…

It’s easy to feel sometimes like we’re awash in lots of numbers in the news.There are all kinds of data about foreclosures, costs of health, poverty, you…

In what officials call an effort towards greater transparency, the city of Detroit launched a website that offers access to many government documents that…