"How do you know? Do you work for Onstar?"
No but my friend worked for them from 95 to last year. I don't know if I'm agreeing or disagreeing with anyone because this thread is all over the place but I will tell you that you all would be surprised at what goes on... REALLY surprised.
Go to 400 Renaissance Center in Detroit, MI 48265 if you don't believe me...
"It is theoretically possible for OnStar to be remotely activated by malicious third parties or under government order. This would enable third parties to track the location of the car, along with the ability to listen to the contents of any conversations carried on by the occupants within the car without their consent. However the FBI has been denied the ability to use this as it disables OnStar's safety features as determined by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.In its document of privacy practices, OnStar states that it is not possible for them to listen to or monitor conversations in your car without you knowing it. The hardware is designed so that when an advisor calls into your car, a light flashes, a ring tone is heard, and the radio will mute.
In 2011 OnStar did announce that it would start retaining all the information collected by the GPS and internal system, so that it could be sold to 3rd parties.Although this data is supposed to be “anonymized”, it remains unclear exactly what they mean by this as it is extremely difficult to anonymize GPS data"
That's all I'm sayin