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Re:Will Google Enter The Insurance Industry? by droopyEyelids on Sunday June 22, 2014 @03:20AM (#7927150)
I'm super curious about the limitations of information an insurance company can use to profile you. Do you have to agree to every factor explicitly? Or could Google throw in something like "...and factors based on your interaction with Google products"
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Re:Will Google Enter The Insurance Industry? by zaroth on Sunday June 22, 2014 @03:37AM (#7927176)
I'm going to bet you won't see Google peeking at your bathroom scale, without telling you first, and using that to give you better life insurance.

Now, I would bet that they let you OPT-IN to sharing that data, in order to qualify for a discount, which is effectively changing the price curve.

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