Car companies are capturing your driving data and selling it to insurance companies…and who knows who else. David Ginsburg, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Mark Fuccio, Chuck Joiner, Marty Jencius, Ben Roethig, Jim Rea, Jeff Gamet, Eric Bolden, Web Bixby, and Brittany Smith discuss yet another invisible way that data about you is being monetized and sold, potentially at your expense.

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Show Notes:

Chapters:

00 Introduction: Car Companies and Data Tracking

02:09 Premium Increase Trigger

04:24 Concerns and Ramifications

05:20 Tesla's Explicit Data Usage05:58 Collection of Sensitive Information

07:27 Impact on Insurance and Risk Management

10:43 Tracking for Lower Insurance Rates

14:41 Determining Driver Groups

16:50 Informed Consent and Data Usage

22:43 Awareness of Data Tracking

GM, Major Carmakers Are Telling Insurers How You Drive

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gm-major-carmakers-telling-insurers-153518036.html

Cars are covertly tattling to insurance companies about your bad driving

https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2024/03/12/cars-are-covertly-tattling-to-insurance-companies-about-your-bad-driving

Vehicle Privacy Report

https://vehicleprivacyreport.com/

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