Nationwide Insurance

[MarkCO]

Yeah, my wife has NEVER broken a socket whereas I ended up needing medical attention for 2 of the 5 I have broken.

[Irving]

I'm still paying for the time my wife broke her water.

[BladesNBarrels]

I'm still paying for the time my wife broke her water.

Lifetime Achievement!

[TheGrey]

Otherwise, I really have a hard time believing that any one is looking at the parts of the data that an individual may care about like GPS locations. The insurance company already has your address and social security number. They don't care where you've been and aren't going to be sharing their proprietary days with anyone else.

It doesn't matter if you have a hard time believing it or not- it happens. Just because you can't figure out what to do with that info doesn't mean that others don't gather up the data, package it and sell it.

I suppose you also plug your smart phone into the car's stereo system, and expect that the only thing the computer is reading is your music, and not your contacts, your browsing history, and everything else on the phone?

This is all about packaging data. It is disguised as a way to save you a few bucks here and there. It is NOT. Data scraping goes far beyond email addresses.

[Irving]

Everyone against this is really going to hate Ford then, and soon.

For the record, I was speaking strictly from the perspective of your personal info being available to employees at the insurance company. Selling meta data is a whole different deal and seems to be half of the reason many things exist today. Don't know what to say about that. With respect to packaging and selling data, then you've got me convinced. Tracker = bad.

[MarkCO]

I am already not a fan of Ford, mostly due to what I have seen them do in court, and before, on cases where they clearly had liability. And yes, they are scraping data for all kinds of things, some that people would not be happy with. There is a slight benefit to having a digital footprint in those outlier cases, but not enough to justify the abuse of the information collection.

As far as the insurance company having my social, not mine. Been with the same carrier since 16 and they have never had it. When they asked for it in 2002, claiming it was a new requirment, I challenged them and they gave in.

[Irving]

I hated asking for SS. Haven't had to do that for years.