[avi66]

Originally Posted by bocabimmer

This isn’t a court of law with the burden to determine beyond a reasonable doubt who was behind the wheel. They have your VIN, they have some telematics data, they know who has that VIN insured to whom and they make a broad brushstroke generalization that if that car is driven crazy that we should consider them a higher risk. They then follow that up with, “If you don’t like it, tough.”

Just hope your car isn’t stolen, driven by a maniac, and recovered quickly and undamaged before you had chance to inform the insurance.

[marseille82]

There are couple of lawsuits against LexisNexis and GM over data sales. It was just a matter of time.

[lfdal54]

Received the link to my report this morning. Forty-six pages of not much. My first name has the formal/informal version, so that showed up a bunch of times. You can also spell my first name two different ways, that was good for a page or two. My last name also has the dreaded apostrophe in it, guaranteed to screw up data entry forms. That probably accounted for 10 pages at least. For auto insurance purposes nothing other than my driver's license was in there, nothing from BMW for the 10 years or so we've been driving them. My last GM product pre-dates On-Star, except for my 2011 beater and I've never paid the subscription price to turn it on, so nothing in there either. Nothing from Subaru's system either. I could chase down the errant first name spelling, but at this point I'll be dead before they fix it.

[BMWbiker]

This is the topic of today’s (March 18, 2024) New York Times “The Daily” podcast:

“Your Car May Be Spying On You.”

It starts out with the example of a woman whose abusive husband tracked her Mercedes using the car app, despite court restraining orders against him and court orders transferring ownership of the car to her.