Many consumers assume that free apps earn revenue through advertising. However, some popular mobile applications generate additional income by collecting and sharing user data—including information about driving habits. Privacy advocates, regulators, and consumer protection groups have increasingly raised concerns about how driving behavior data gathered through smartphone apps can ultimately influence auto insurance underwriting decisions. The issue has become significant...
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Automakers Are Becoming Data Companies: How GM, Ford, Tesla and Stellantis Plan to Generate Billions From Driver Data
The global automotive industry is quietly undergoing one of the largest business model transformations in its history. For more than a century, automakers generated revenue primarily through vehicle sales and financing. Today, companies including General Motors, Ford, Stellantis and Tesla are pursuing a different objective: turning every connected vehicle into a recurring revenue platform. According to public investor disclosures, leading...
How a License Plate Becomes a Person: Inside the Correlation Pipeline That Connects Cameras, DMVs and Insurers
Introduction A license plate is, by itself, an anonymous string of seven or eight characters. The privacy implications of the surveillance economy documented in Parts 1 and 2 of this series depend entirely on the ability of commercial actors to convert that string into a named individual — with an address, a phone number, a driving history and, increasingly, a...
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How Free Apps Like Life360 and GasBuddy May Increase Your Auto Insurance Premiums
Many consumers assume that free apps earn revenue through advertising. However, some popular mobile applications generate additional income by collecting...
Automakers Are Becoming Data Companies: How GM, Ford, Tesla and Stellantis Plan to Generate Billions From Driver Data
The global automotive industry is quietly undergoing one of the largest business model transformations in its history. For more than...
How a License Plate Becomes a Person: Inside the Correlation Pipeline That Connects Cameras, DMVs and Insurers
Introduction A license plate is, by itself, an anonymous string of seven or eight characters. The privacy implications of the...
Beyond the DMV: The Private Camera Networks Tracking American Drivers Without Buying a Single Record
Introduction State motor vehicle agencies collected at least $282 million selling driver data to private companies in fiscal year 2024,...
State DMVs Collected at Least $282 Million From Driver-Data Sales, Records Show
Introduction State departments of motor vehicles collected at least $282 million in fiscal year 2024 by selling driver and vehicle...
New Jersey’s $2 Billion Legacy Landfill Crisis Raises New Concerns Over Cancer Risks and Environmental Oversight
The former Aeromarine landfill in Keyport, New Jersey, is drawing renewed attention as environmental advocates and residents question whether decades...
The State That Knew: How New Jersey’s Regulatory Failures Fueled Keyport’s Toxic Crisis
For years, the former Aeromarine landfill in Keyport, New Jersey sat quietly along the shoreline of Raritan Bay — deteriorating...
Parental Liability Laws Expand as Minors Gain More Medical Rights Without Parents
WASHINGTON, D.C. — May 17, 2026 — Parents in the United States are facing a growing legal contradiction. Prosecutors are...