silence7@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoIs Your Driving Being Secretly Scored? The insurance industry, hungry for insights into how people drive, has turned to automakers and smartphone apps like Life360.www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up1515
arrow-up1515external-linkIs Your Driving Being Secretly Scored? The insurance industry, hungry for insights into how people drive, has turned to automakers and smartphone apps like Life360.www.nytimes.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square70fedilink
minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-26 months agoNope, because I drive an 03 Jetta lol Edit: I’m also quite selective about the stuff I install on my phone, and nothing has “always on” location data.
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-26 months agoThey’re also buying tracking data from phone apps, so you’d need to make sure you’re not running any of those either.
minus-squareRaoulDook@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 months agoNow they can track your account through car tax records since you said that. Next time say you drive a 1992 Pontiac Fiero
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 months agoNot in the same detailed minute-by-minute tracking of where you’ve been.
Nope, because I drive an 03 Jetta lol
Edit: I’m also quite selective about the stuff I install on my phone, and nothing has “always on” location data.
They’re also buying tracking data from phone apps, so you’d need to make sure you’re not running any of those either.
Now they can track your account through car tax records since you said that.
Next time say you drive a 1992 Pontiac Fiero
I drive a bicycle
Not in the same detailed minute-by-minute tracking of where you’ve been.