Fuck Allstate

Allstate, already known as the Visigoths of the insurance market, has been buying app companies to collect your mobile data so that they can jack up your rates.

I'd call them a bunch of pig felching rat-bastards, but would be unfair to people who felch pigs.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday filed a lawsuit against Allstate Corporation and its mobile analytics subsidiary, Arity, alleging the American insurance giant conspired with mobile app developers to collect telematics data on millions of motorists without consent, in violation of consumer protection laws.

When the supremely corrupt Ken Fucking Paxton is the good guy in a lawsuit, you are doing it wrong.

Allstate then allegedly used this data against those drivers to justify rate increases, deny coverage, or to drop coverage.

"Our investigation revealed that Allstate and Arity paid mobile apps millions of dollars to install Allstate’s tracking software," said Attorney General Paxton in a statement. "The personal data of millions of Americans was sold to insurance companies without their knowledge or consent in violation of the law. Texans deserve better and we will hold all these companies accountable."

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Because the Artity SDK data alone could not reliably identify drivers, Allstate is alleged to have licensed the personal data available to the apps – first and last name, phone number, address, zip code, mobile ad-ID (MAID), device ID, and ad-ID – and to have combined the data sets to profile drivers

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"For example, if a person was a passenger in a bus, a taxi, or in a friend’s car, and that vehicle’s driver sped, hard braked, or made a sharp turn, Defendants would conclude that the passenger, not the actual driver, engaged in 'bad' driving behavior based on the Arity SDK Data," the complaint explains. "Defendants would then subsequently sell and share the data so it could be used to inform decisions about that passenger’s insurability based on their 'bad' driving behavior."

Allstate doesn't care.  They've never cared.

If this is not a crime, it should be.