Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies

This is a pretty jaw-dropping exposé of the extent to which automakers are tracking their customers driving behaviour and sharing that telemetry data with insurance companies.

Anyone buying a new car needs to read this.

Automakers are Sharing Consumers' Driving Behaviour with Insurance Companies

(Tip of the hat to Dan Gillmor on Mastodon for the 'gifted' link ).

Cory Doctorow picks up the topic in an expansive and well referenced essay in which he links this latest piece to broader consideration of corporate behaviour, regulation, personal privacy and consumer rights.

Your car spies on you and rats you out to insurance companies