{"id":846,"date":"2024-03-11T09:44:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T16:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2024-03-11T10:01:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T17:01:43","slug":"automakers-sharing-our-driving-habits-with-insurance-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2024\/03\/11\/automakers-sharing-our-driving-habits-with-insurance-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Automakers Sharing Our Driving Habits with Insurance Companies."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Amazing how much data these new cars are sharing with the manufacturer who then share with insurance companies &#8211; for a fee. GM is making in the \u201clow millions\u201d from LexisNexis. GM. Subaru. Kia. Honda. Hyundai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Users are unknowingly agreeing to this when they click yes on the user agreement for Starlink and Onstar or the manufactures\u2019 equivalent. Instructions on how to opt out or get your own report that is being shared can be found at the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/11\/technology\/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full New York Times article here<\/a> thanks to Dan Gillmor for the paid link. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"473\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_5449-1-473x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_5449-1-473x1024.png 473w, https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_5449-1-139x300.png 139w, https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_5449-1-768x1662.png 768w, https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_5449-1-710x1536.png 710w, https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_5449-1.png 924w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing how much data these new cars are sharing with the manufacturer who then share with insurance companies &#8211; for a fee. GM is making in the \u201clow millions\u201d from LexisNexis. GM. Subaru. Kia. Honda. Hyundai. Users are unknowingly agreeing to this when they click yes on the user agreement for Starlink and Onstar or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[461,463,462,460],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cars","tag-insurance","tag-lexisnexis","tag-privacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}