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> "Respecting our customers’ privacy and earning their trust is deeply important to us," the car maker claimed in a statement Thursday. "Although Smart Driver was created to promote safer driving behavior, we ended that program due to customer feedback."

The stretch and spin on this is pretty insane. I guess it's true if you're forced to do it by a client who you come to care about because they're the federal government and they've named, shamed, and sued you. Yet another reason to continue to avoid American made cars.