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Re:Allstate used GasBuddy and other apps to track driving be... by gruez on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @01:47PM (#42701887)
By that logic should we stop having red light and speed cameras? After all, it's not hard to come up with plausible sounding reasons why you might be forced to speed or run a red light.
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Re:Allstate used GasBuddy and other apps to track driving be... by teeray on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @03:23PM (#42703312)
It is not “by that logic,” since the comment specifically referenced “this data”, meaning inertial and positional telemetry collected by insurers from apps like Gas Buddy, as the article references. Introducing external speed cameras is a strawman.
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