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One of the major sellers of detailed driver behavioral data is shutting down (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by bamboo@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 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.