Texas Sues Allstate for Collecting Driver Data to Raise Premiums

[Kaz]

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Texas has sued one of the nation’s largest car insurance providers alleging that it violated the state’s privacy laws by surreptitiously collecting detailed location data on millions of drivers and using that information to justify raising insurance premiums.

The state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, said the lawsuit against Allstate and its subsidiary Arity is the first enforcement action ever filed by a state attorney general to enforce a data privacy law. It also follows a deceptive business practice lawsuit he filed against General Motors accusing the car manufacturer of misleading customers by collecting and selling driver data.

 

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Texas Sues Allstate for Collecting Driver Data to Raise Premiums

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The lawsuit accuses the insurance company of paying app developers to install code in their products that sent sensitive customer data back to...

 

Wow, I never thought I'd see the day that insurance companies were held accountable!  Too bad they will just use this lawsuit as an excuse to raise premiums...  This does set an interesting precedent.  Insurance companies have traditionally always changed their rates based on how safe they felt a diver was.  This creates a line in the sand, but exactly where is that line?  Is it the consumers vehicle?  Cameras located at busy intersections?  Speeding ticket cameras?  What about tickets in general?  These are things that will have to be discussed in the courts or it will just be business as usual with everything fair game.  Maybe the initial complaint is about transparency and it will be fine as long as they tell everyone about it.  (Here on page 523 of the user documentation, you can see...)

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  On 21/01/2025 at 18:36, Kaz said:

 

Texas Sues Allstate for Collecting Driver Data to Raise Premiums

GIZMODO.COM

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The lawsuit accuses the insurance company of paying app developers to install code in their products that sent sensitive customer data back to...

 

Wow, I never thought I'd see the day that insurance companies were held accountable!  Too bad they will just use this lawsuit as an excuse to raise premiums...  This does set an interesting precedent.  Insurance companies have traditionally always changed their rates based on how safe they felt a diver was.  This creates a line in the sand, but exactly where is that line?  Is it the consumers vehicle?  Cameras located at busy intersections?  Speeding ticket cameras?  What about tickets in general?  These are things that will have to be discussed in the courts or it will just be business as usual with everything fair game.  Maybe the initial complaint is about transparency and it will be fine as long as they tell everyone about it.  (Here on page 523 of the user documentation, you can see...)

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I hate insurance i tried two of their safety app to get rebate and failed to both while cheating to get 100% score. What they consider a good driver is someone driving 30mph on the highways with light off and no blinker that never use the brake.  Everyone drive far from those so they never do any claim.