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Texas Attorney General Sues Allstate and Arity for Unlawfully Collecting, Using, and Selling Over 45 Million Americans’ Driving Data to Insurance Companies. (www.texasattorneygeneral.gov)

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Allstate, through its subsidiary data analytics company Arity, would pay app developers to incorporate its software to track consumers’ driving data. Allstate collected trillions of miles worth of location data from over 45 million consumers nationwide and used the data to create the “world’s largest driving behavior database.” When a consumer requested a quote or renewed their coverage, Allstate and other insurers would use that consumer’s data to justify increasing their car insurance premium.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I'd love to see if Allstate lobbied to any organization tangentially related to Mr. Paxton

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

"Texas Data Privacy and Security Act"... This is a thing? lol

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For the love of all that is pure and holy, don't force me to agree with Ken Paxton! It's inhumane.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This isn't the first time he has come out in support of privacy and I really don't understand it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He probably doesn't want anybody see the data of his frequent trips to the brothels of Juárez

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

I feel dirty.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

heartbreaking

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Texas?

That Ken Paxton?

Did Allstate not pay their protection money, or something?

(It's not completely a joke. Allowing rampant corruption, and then cracking down on real crimes using legitimate systems of justice but only on the crimes done by people who cross you personally, is one of the galaxy-brain strats of the sophisticated modern tyrant. It's incredibly powerful and there's not really a good way to resist or prevent it that I know of. It's one of the big reasons Xi Jinping has become as powerful as he is.)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Yea this stinks of someone’s palms not getting greased enough.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Hyper rare Ken Paxton W?