thewayne: (Default)
They've received a lot of blowback when driver insurance rates started getting jacked. Now they've announced they stopped sharing driver data with LN and an outfit called Verisk. Except for one thing.

They didn't say that they stopped sharing information with data brokers.

There's absolutely nothing in their statement showing that the information leak from GM has stopped. In Europe, this thing would be completely against the law. And California has a data privacy law similar to the GDPR framework. It's going to be very interesting to see what happens as the law suits continue to fly.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/03/gm-stops-sharing-driver-data-with-brokers-amid-backlash/
thewayne: (Default)
A quote from the Slashdot summary:
"Kenn Dahl says he has always been a careful driver. The owner of a software company near Seattle, he drives a leased Chevrolet Bolt. He's never been responsible for an accident. So Mr. Dahl, 65, was surprised in 2022 when the cost of his car insurance jumped by 21 percent. Quotes from other insurance companies were also high. One insurance agent told him his LexisNexis report was a factor. LexisNexis is a New York-based global data broker with a "Risk Solutions" division that caters to the auto insurance industry and has traditionally kept tabs on car accidents and tickets. Upon Mr. Dahl's request, LexisNexis sent him a 258-page "consumer disclosure report," which it must provide per the Fair Credit Reporting Act. What it contained stunned him: more than 130 pages detailing each time he or his wife had driven the Bolt over the previous six months. It included the dates of 640 trips, their start and end times, the distance driven and an accounting of any speeding, hard braking or sharp accelerations. The only thing it didn't have is where they had driven the car. On a Thursday morning in June for example, the car had been driven 7.33 miles in 18 minutes; there had been two rapid accelerations and two incidents of hard braking."

So now it doesn't matter that you're accident-free, it matters what an algorithm thinks of your driving patterns.

The one thing that is certain is that data brokers have far too much power, and I want to make sure that I can disconnect any cellular connection on my next car!

At this time, the article is not behind a paywall, though that could change:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/03/11/2342228/automakers-are-sharing-consumers-driving-behavior-with-insurance-companies

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