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One of the major sellers of detailed driver behavioral data is shutting down (arstechnica.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

More likely they're looking to exploit it directly, rather than sell it to a third party.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

I assume the primary market for this is insurance companies who salivate at any data they can use to justify a rate hike. Secondarily advertisers, but they probably wouldn’t pay nearly as much since they have all sorts of data sources to pick from.