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But do you sell the data at all? Just because you do not sell the data to insurance companies directly doesn't the data is safe. could easily sell the data to d

But do you sell the data at all? Just because you do not sell the data to insurance companies directly doesn't the data is safe. could easily sell the data to data aggregators who sell to insurance companies.

chickenpotpie 6y ago
"We share your personal information, driving event data and other information to Arity 875, LLC (“Arity”), which provides driving analytics behaviour services to enable us to provide certain functionalities of the Service, such as driving event history. Arity may also use this information to calculate discounts, rewards or pricing offers by third parties such as insurance companies, and to perform various profiling activities in order to produce a score which may predict the level of driver riskiness, and to develop its risk predictive models for its own analytics purposes. You hereby acknowledge and consent to the collection and use of your data and information by Arity as set out in this policy and in Arity’s privacy policy, which is located at https://www.arity.com/privacy." https://www.arity.com/privacy." https://life360.helpshift.com/a/life360-family-locator/?s=privacy-policy-tos&f=full-privacy-policy&l=en&p=web https://life360.helpshift.com/a/life360-family-locator/?s=pr...
- bhhaskin 6y ago
  Got it. EDIT: my tone wasn't good here. Assuming good intentions. I am leaving the original below just so people can see what the replies where to. Original: Got It. So the above is a flat out lie.
  - crhulls 6y ago
    No, it is not a lie. I'm happy to answer questions openly but please give me a chance before calling me a liar. Arity (an Allstate subsidiary) provides us tech that powers our crash detection service (think Onstar for your phone - we dispatched 10k ambulances last year) and other driving features. Arity also scores our drivers, like a credit score for your driving. But, this is extremely different than selling your data. Arity does not know who these people are - they get a set of limited information which is not tied to an indvidual. They then take that information and match it with insurance offers based on a number of factors, but who that person is, or there forward looking behavior is never connected back. They don't have the legal right (or even the reasonable technical ability based on the data we give them) and the offers are not tied to an individual. The insurance offers are similar to what Credit Karma does with your credit score. You go to Credit Karma, you give them your social and some seriously sensitive info, and then they match you with offers. They are NOT selling your info to credit card companies in the same way we are not selling your info to insurance companies. There is very little difference. To the technical piece, I guess they could theoretically reverse engineer people from our data, but that is like say anyone who uses say Amplitude or some metrics provider could be selling your data to insurance companies. All of us developers use a number of 3rd party services that we are trusting to be shepherds of private information. In this case one of our third party providers is an insurer. So you could argue they have more incentive to breach to contract, but they would really get no benefit from that because a) we would sue the to oblivion and b) do you really think they could get insurance commissioners to allow them to price on stolen data? As mentioned above we are extremely transparent about all this. It is explained at sign up. We push the information to our users. We give them a privacy center which goes through all of this in non-legalese. User can opt out of anything they want and we don't degrade the service intentionally (e.g. if you opt out of the connection to Arity we literally can't power the features). We even let free users opt out of the targeted promotions. Some people may still not like this but we do not do corporate speak and we do not try to hide anything.
    - chickenpotpie 6y ago
      I appreciate the time you have take to talk about this, especially with how critical we've been of your work. If I may add one more piece of criticism: I really want to believe you about your policy and I would be much more comfortable with your app if the privacy policy explicitly said some of the things you claim.
      - crhulls 6y ago
        Thanks and noted.. Have you seen the Privacy Center in our app? This was meant as the area to get plain English explanations on how things work along with various opt-outs. It is still a bit more legalese-ish than I would like but the intent was very much to be open and let users make informed decisions.
    - bhhaskin 6y ago
      I apologize if it seemed like a personal attack. That wasn't my intention. And I really do appreciate the fact that you guys have a privacy preference center. It's clear that you do care about privacy, and since you do care about privacy then I am sure you can understand the concerns.
      - crhulls 6y ago
        Thanks - much appreciated. What I primarily believe in is being open and honest with our users, and avoiding corporate speak whenever possible. Privacy means different things to different people and I probably am more open than he average person on hacker news. A full comment on what it personally means to me would be quite a long essay!
crhulls 6y ago
Yes, there are certain portions of data we sell, but not the type that would/could be used for insurance. There are a ton of legal/contractual restrictions based on each partner as well. See my other comments that go into more detail and the level of transparency and control we provide.

chickenpotpie 6y ago

"We share your personal information, driving event data and other information to Arity 875, LLC (“Arity”), which provides driving analytics behaviour services to enable us to provide certain functionalities of the Service, such as driving event history. Arity may also use this information to calculate discounts, rewards or pricing offers by third parties such as insurance companies, and to perform various profiling activities in order to produce a score which may predict the level of driver riskiness, and to develop its risk predictive models for its own analytics purposes. You hereby acknowledge and consent to the collection and use of your data and information by Arity as set out in this policy and in Arity’s privacy policy, which is located at https://www.arity.com/privacy." https://www.arity.com/privacy." https://life360.helpshift.com/a/life360-family-locator/?s=privacy-policy-tos&f=full-privacy-policy&l=en&p=web https://life360.helpshift.com/a/life360-family-locator/?s=pr...

bhhaskin 6y ago
Got it. EDIT: my tone wasn't good here. Assuming good intentions. I am leaving the original below just so people can see what the replies where to. Original: Got It. So the above is a flat out lie.
- crhulls 6y ago
  No, it is not a lie. I'm happy to answer questions openly but please give me a chance before calling me a liar. Arity (an Allstate subsidiary) provides us tech that powers our crash detection service (think Onstar for your phone - we dispatched 10k ambulances last year) and other driving features. Arity also scores our drivers, like a credit score for your driving. But, this is extremely different than selling your data. Arity does not know who these people are - they get a set of limited information which is not tied to an indvidual. They then take that information and match it with insurance offers based on a number of factors, but who that person is, or there forward looking behavior is never connected back. They don't have the legal right (or even the reasonable technical ability based on the data we give them) and the offers are not tied to an individual. The insurance offers are similar to what Credit Karma does with your credit score. You go to Credit Karma, you give them your social and some seriously sensitive info, and then they match you with offers. They are NOT selling your info to credit card companies in the same way we are not selling your info to insurance companies. There is very little difference. To the technical piece, I guess they could theoretically reverse engineer people from our data, but that is like say anyone who uses say Amplitude or some metrics provider could be selling your data to insurance companies. All of us developers use a number of 3rd party services that we are trusting to be shepherds of private information. In this case one of our third party providers is an insurer. So you could argue they have more incentive to breach to contract, but they would really get no benefit from that because a) we would sue the to oblivion and b) do you really think they could get insurance commissioners to allow them to price on stolen data? As mentioned above we are extremely transparent about all this. It is explained at sign up. We push the information to our users. We give them a privacy center which goes through all of this in non-legalese. User can opt out of anything they want and we don't degrade the service intentionally (e.g. if you opt out of the connection to Arity we literally can't power the features). We even let free users opt out of the targeted promotions. Some people may still not like this but we do not do corporate speak and we do not try to hide anything.
  - chickenpotpie 6y ago
    I appreciate the time you have take to talk about this, especially with how critical we've been of your work. If I may add one more piece of criticism: I really want to believe you about your policy and I would be much more comfortable with your app if the privacy policy explicitly said some of the things you claim.
    - crhulls 6y ago
      Thanks and noted.. Have you seen the Privacy Center in our app? This was meant as the area to get plain English explanations on how things work along with various opt-outs. It is still a bit more legalese-ish than I would like but the intent was very much to be open and let users make informed decisions.
  - bhhaskin 6y ago
    I apologize if it seemed like a personal attack. That wasn't my intention. And I really do appreciate the fact that you guys have a privacy preference center. It's clear that you do care about privacy, and since you do care about privacy then I am sure you can understand the concerns.
    - crhulls 6y ago
      Thanks - much appreciated. What I primarily believe in is being open and honest with our users, and avoiding corporate speak whenever possible. Privacy means different things to different people and I probably am more open than he average person on hacker news. A full comment on what it personally means to me would be quite a long essay!

crhulls 6y ago

Yes, there are certain portions of data we sell, but not the type that would/could be used for insurance. There are a ton of legal/contractual restrictions based on each partner as well. See my other comments that go into more detail and the level of transparency and control we provide.