How apps sell your data to insurers
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What apps are tracking your data for insurance companies?
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How can you manage unwanted subscriptions effectively?
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But these apps also send your driving data, speeds, breaking habits to third-party brokers who resell it to your insurance carrier. You can bet this data can be used against you to up your rates. So shut them down. Team iPhone? Find location services in the settings on your phone. You see a list of apps. Tap the app selling your data and switch it to Never. Android, go to Location, and then App Permissions, and do the same thing. If an app doesn't need to know where you're located, don't let it. Join almost a million folks who get my five-star rated newsletter every single morning. You are going to love it. Sign up at GetKim.com. Next up, a call from my weekend show, The Kim Commando Show. Enjoy. Every business is asking the same question.
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What are the implications of apps sharing driving data?
So what's going on? So I have a teenager daughter that has an Apple iPhone, and I have been trying to navigate the best apps to protect her, keep her safe, give me notifications, etc. And we initially used the Bark app. And as we started the process, one of the conditions to us using the Bark app was that it required a laptop or a desktop monitor that her phone has to constantly connect through using the Wi-Fi to update. So I was never getting anything real-time if she was out of town or gone away for a couple days. I wasn't getting updates at all, and it wasn't giving me, like, immediate feedback, and it never seemed to be working. So we nixed that program. It did have some positives to it, but one of the negatives as well that we realized is when she was going into the Safari using the iOS system, their program did not block anything.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What apps are tracking your data for insurance companies?
0:00–0:44
2
How can you manage unwanted subscriptions effectively?
0:44–3:17
3
What are the implications of apps sharing driving data?
3:17–6:48
4
How can you control location services on your phone?
6:48–8:39
5
What are the challenges of monitoring a teenager's phone?
8:39–13:13