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Auto Insurance Privacy Concerns

Womble Bond Dickinson

How Your Car Became a Surveillance Weapon

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Your car is spying on you, and you may have invited others to spy on you in the car too. We have long known that connected devices have the capabilities of tracking our movements and behavior to send to unknown data...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Massachusetts Ballot Question Poses Privacy Concerns

Ballot Question 1 in Massachusetts, if passed in November, would require car manufacturers that sell cars equipped with telematics systems (i.e., a method of monitoring a vehicle by combining a GPS system with on-board...more

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DOT Shifts Into Gear on Self-Driving Cars and Issues New Automated Vehicles Policy

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued a comprehensive policy on “automated vehicles,” more commonly known as self-driving cars. Part of the U.S. Department of Transportation, NHTSA is the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #40 – Dashcam apps and driving habits

Huh? What is a dashcam app? A dashcam app uses a smartphones on the dashboard of a car to record traffic accidents, cars running red lights and bad drivers causing accidents. Dashcams can detect hard braking and can...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Sensor system technology to track a driver’s every move

A new, proprietary sensor system technology has arrived on the market that can track drivers using cameras and sensors, including whether the driver is speeding or turning without signaling, or even data such as the driver’s...more

Carlton Fields

Telematics and Usage-Based Insurance: Benefits, Challenges, and the Future

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The NAIC’s Center for Insurance Policy and Research (CIPR) released a white paper in March 2015 providing an excellent overview of the brave new world of automobile “telematics” data and their use in premium rate-making by...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

What Are the Barriers to Autonomous Vehicles? The Answers May Surprise You…

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Foley hosted Drive Forward: The Future of Telematics on January 14 and undoubtedly, our speakers agreed – the connected car is here to stay with technology rapidly advancing towards the integration of autonomous vehicles....more

Carlton Fields

Considering the Impact of Driverless Cars

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Driverless cars, also called autonomous cars, auto-pilot cars, robo-cars, automated cars, connected cars, self-driving cars, or driver-free cars, can navigate and sense the surrounding environment without human input during...more

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Growing Use of Vehicle Monitoring Devices Fuels Increase in Privacy Concerns

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In recent years, companies in the United States and abroad have increasingly turned to vehicle tracking devices and remote shut off devices to offer lower priced insurance products and auto loans to higher risk borrowers. On...more

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