Your Favorite #Apps Know How You Drive, And They're Snitching To Your #Insurer
Have your rates gone up recently? Blame these apps
The #smartphone apps collecting #driver data may not be obvious at first glance. One, #Life360, is used by parents to keep track of their children. #MyRadar offers weather forecasts. #GasBuddy helps people save on fuel costs.
https://jalopnik.com/your-favorite-apps-know-how-you-drive-and-theyre-snitc-1851537854 #insurance #privacy #surveillance
Your Driving, Tracked
The smartphone apps collecting driver data: #Life360, #MyRadar and #GasBuddy have analysis features that offer insights into safety and fuel usage. Those insights are provided by Arity, a data broker founded by Allstate.
Arity uses the data to create driving scores for millions of people, and then markets the scores to insurance companies
#Arity #Allstate #insurance #surveillance #privacy #tracking #auto #cars #technology #tech
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/09/briefing/driving-apps-insurance-tracking.html
@lealternative avendo casa anche nel pisciatoio d’Italia (Friuli) faccio uso smodato di app meteo, vorrei sapere qual’e la migliore app avanzata di #meteo #radar. Attualmente uso #accuweather e anche #MyRadar su #iOS