Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Allstate on Tuesday alleging the company covertly monitored customers' driving habits in a bid to raise rates. The suit, which was filed in Montgomery County,
Texas’ attorney general alleges Allstate violates privacy laws by illegally tracking 45 million Americans’ driving behaviors.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Allstate Insurance Co. for allegedly conspiring to collect and sell data from mobile devices, without the owners' consent. But the insurer denies any wrongdoing.
Legislators and Data Privacy Experts are voicing growing concerns about the amount of data that car manufacturers and insurance companies can access and use.
According to the lawsuit, AllState and its subsidiary harvested trillions of miles of location data from over 45 million insured customers across the nation, resulting in the 'world's largest driving behavior database.
Allstate ALL.N has been sued by the state of Texas, which accused the insurer on Monday of illegally tracking drivers through their cell phones without their consent and using the data to justify charging more for car insurance.
The lawsuit claims the company tracked more than 45 million Americans and used the information to raise insurance rates without consumers' knowledge.
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The class action was filed in the Northern District of Illinois. It goes further than the claims on behalf of Texas consumers in the state action, and looks to encompass a national class.
A new lawsuit claims Allstate insurance and its data-collecting subsidiary Arity collect and sell driver information.
OnStar is GM's subscription-based, in-car communication service, sold to drivers for security, emergency services, navigation, and remote diagnostics. But according to the FTC, GM launched a program called OnStar Smart Driver in 2015 and subsequently struck deals with telematics analysis firms to provide those businesses with driver data.