Comment by wolverine876
1 year ago
> It looks like the shared data at least tries to be anonymous
One of the main points of the article is that insurance companies are using the data to raise drivers' rates. How can they do that if the data is anonymous?
The car company can share the details based on the chassis VIN number rather than driver details.
Then the insurance company grabs the vehicle registration number when you ask for a quote and looks up the VIN on their side based on a security database to prevent resale of stolen cars or similar.
Anonymous data becomes identifiable data...
> The car company can share the details based on the chassis VIN number rather than driver details.
That's hardly anonymized data! It's more obscured.
Ah, anonymous was the wrong word. I meant instead that the shared data tries to restrict itself to information that doesn't obviously fall under a right to privacy. For example, trip times are shared, but locations are not.