Your car could be ratting you out to your insurance company [View all]
The day before Philip Siefke went shopping for a new car insurance policy, he happened to hit his brakes hard while driving. Not 24 hours later, when he priced a policy with Progressive, he was shocked to find the insurer already knew about that mundane experience.
“I’m like, how the eff did they have my information?” Siefke said. “I was pissed.”
He called Progressive and demanded to know how the insurer had such detailed information about his driving habits. The information came from Toyota, a rep explained to the incredulous Siefke.
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Most people have no idea they’re agreeing to the sale of their data, said John Yanchunis, an attorney at Morgan and Morgan whom Siefke hired to sue Toyota, Progressive and a third party-data provider in April 2025.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/19/business/automakers-selling-driving-data-to-insurance
After reading this I went on my Ford App and my son's Toyota app and after finding the privacy tab, deleted third party data sharing permission we had inadvertently given when buying the cars. So annoying that corporations get away with this shit! 😡
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