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Insurance company accused of using secret software to illegally collect and sell location data on millions of Americans (www.malwarebytes.com)

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[–] scsi@lemm.ee 57 points 1 day ago (1 children)

emphasis mine, de-clickbaited

Insurance company Allstate and its subsidiary Arity unlawfully collected, used, and sold data about the location and movement of Texans’ cell phones through secretly embedded software in mobile apps, according to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

[–] Taokan@sh.itjust.works 6 points 15 hours ago

Lol. They were trying their damndest to get me and my family to install that. I'm like... there's a bit of a conflict of interest there. I can see some value in having location data of your family, who's driving too fast, if someone's in an accident. I will absolutely not be sharing that data with the company that earns money for its shareholders by outperforming the statistical likelihood of paying me money, by finding every way possible to not pay me money.