I immediately wondered that as well. In the best case, insurers are giving people a discount to install an app, like health insurers handing out connected fitn

I immediately wondered that as well. In the best case, insurers are giving people a discount to install an app, like health insurers handing out connected fitness monitors. That's creepy, but only mildly so by today's standards. However, I recently renewed my car insurance with a popular company, and they didn't ask me to install an app, so that seems unlikely. I wouldn't be surprised if it were silently bundled into a bunch of apps that have location access and run in the background. It gives insurers vaguely-useful data, but mostly exists to hoover up sweet, sweet location data. EDIT: See below[1,2]. It's the extra-creepy version. [1] https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-ride-hailing-safety-20160526-snap-story.html https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-ride-ha... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19780361 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19780361