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Insurance companies want to double dip: They want to sell insurance and profit off of that, and then profit off of selling your personal location/habit informat
by Someone1234 6y ago
Insurance companies want to double dip: They want to sell insurance and profit off of that, and then profit off of selling your personal location/habit information on the back-end.
Even if they aren't doing it today, they want to be positioned to be in the "data business" tomorrow. It will start out as "opt out" before becoming normalized/expected.
Even putting aside the fact that modern vehicle's electrical systems are already stretched thin and this is yet another constant battery drain. The privacy implications of this cannot be ignored even if the data is "anonymized" (not least of all because multiple sources of "anonymized" data can be combined to bypass it entirely).
- donmcronald 6y agoAnd you can be guaranteed the car manufacturers aren't going to be selling them data that would let them do statistical analysis on the vehicles. I think it'll be super anti consumer. All those systems will be used to "prove" the driver is at fault for everything. It'll never be a mechanical malfunction or an infrastructure issue. It'll always be the "bad" driver that causes accidents.