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Your driving could be monitored by popular apps


GasBuddy, MyRadar, and Life360 might send your telematics to auto insurance companies.

Your tendency to slam on the brakes, your driving speeds, your commute schedule, and even your location down to the longitude and latitude coordinates are all collected as bulk remote vehicular behavior info, or telematics. This means many users are now receiving rate adjustment offers or special discount advertisements from their auto insurers based on information they didn’t know the company possessed. Insurance rates generally rely on a broad spectrum of demographic and socio-economic factors like gender, marital status, age, location, and credit history.

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