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Insurance firms can skim your online data to price your insurance — and there's little in the law to stop this

  • Written by Zofia Bednarz, Lecturer in Commercial Law, University of Sydney
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What if your insurer was tracking your online data to price your car insurance? Seems far-fetched, right?

Yet there is predictive value in the digital traces we leave online. And insurers may use data collection and analytics tools to find our data and use it to price insurance services.

For instance, somestudieshave found a...

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