Drivers accept monitoring devices, to earn discounts on Auto Insurance.

More and more drivers are inviting their insurance companies to ride along and monitor their driving.
The idea behind so-called “pay as you drive” or “usage-based” insurance is simple enough. As State Farm puts it: “Safer drivers should pay less for auto insurance.”

[...] But privacy advocates worry that the new forms of insurance discounts – especially policies that employ GPS data — create the potential for corporations to monitor a lot more than just how many miles we drive, and how fast we do it, especially location.

 

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