What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Is Your Phone Tracking Your Driving?
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
As cars get smarter, automakers - with the help of third-party apps - are leveraging the new data they’re able to collect on people's driving habits to influence drivers’ insurance prices. The problem? Most people aren’t aware their driving is being monitored.
Guest: Kashmir Hill, tech reporter for the New York Times.
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| 0:28.8 | Can you tell us a little bit about Kathleen Lomax? Who is she? |
| 0:36.0 | Kathleen Lomax is a mom in New Jersey. |
| 0:41.0 | She has two twin daughters who are 18. |
| 0:46.0 | That's Kashmir Hill, a technology reporter for the New York Times. |
| 0:50.0 | And last year she started using Life 360, which is an app that a lot of parents like to use to kind of keep track of where their family members are, where their kids are are and she started using it because she |
| 1:05.5 | was anxious about her daughters driving around and just wanting to know that |
| 1:09.8 | they were safe. mind. But the app also had this feature where it would tell you about people's driving and how |
| 1:28.6 | risky they were or how safe they were as drivers, also as this feature that can give you an alert if it detects |
| 1:35.0 | that somebody has crashed and this is all based on information coming from the |
| 1:40.2 | phone and she'd been reading my stories about how automakers had started sharing data |
| 1:46.5 | about how people drove with the insurance industry and so she just wondered well is this happening with the Life 360 app? |
| 1:55.0 | So she reached out to Life 360 by email. They said they partnered with a data analytics company called |
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