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> they certainly are not following you 100% of the time

I don’t follow the argument being made here.

The state of modern surveillance is different from what is described. People are consenting to precise monitoring for slightly lower insurance premiums. The question is: should it be illegal (should we fight against monitoring) for some moral/philosophical reason, or are we accepting it because that’s the way things are.



There is not necessarily informed consent with the type of informatics data collection described in these suits.

This isn’t a lawsuit about a “progressive snapshot” type of device.

It has been described by many that these vehicles had been opted in at the dealer with little to no notification, and the data subsequently sold to brokers, who then sold the data to insurers.




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