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Insurance company Allstate and its subsidiary Arity unlawfully collected, used, and sold data about the location and movement of Texans’ cell phones through secretly embedded software in mobile apps, according to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Lol. They were trying their damndest to get me and my family to install that. I’m like… there’s a bit of a conflict of interest there. I can see some value in having location data of your family, who’s driving too fast, if someone’s in an accident. I will absolutely not be sharing that data with the company that earns money for its shareholders by outperforming the statistical likelihood of paying me money, by finding every way possible to not pay me money.
As opposed to say Apple, Microsoft or Google?
As opposed to say, everybody. It’s so freakin’ hard to actually stay private these days. Annoying as fuck.
I like the name and shame, maybe someday a company will care about the shame. But really, calling a phone app “secret software” is a lot stranger than an app sending info back to base.
