Gas Buddy is helping insurance companies to track you?

I turn off location services for all apps that don't need to know where i am. For those that do, i limit their access to those times when i am actually using the app.

I also resist putting apps on my phone. Everyone wants to put an app on my phone. Most recently i was at Costco, and they said that i can find a piece of info by looking at their app. My reply was that i don't want their app on my phone.
 
I am like Snowy. Why in the world would I want to give personal information to everyone in the world? Whose business is it where I am at a moment in time except if that is necessary to (for example) find out where in the store a certain item is located? I use as few apps as I can.

Every entity that has my information is another possible source for hacking. I guess I am just too private to count today in society. Medical providers seem to have an especially egregious record of keeping information secure. Why? Because they don't spend the dough necessary to keep the information safe. It is unbelievable to me that the medical community still use faxes for many things.

Rule One in security classification back in my military days: THE NEED TO KNOW. Most places don't need to know.
 
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Frankly this is a shocker to me. Years ago I joked that your health insurer would look into your supermarket apps and send you a note "hey you have been buying too much meat, your rates are going up"...or your car insurer: "hey we see that you have been going to the liquor store...your rates are going up". I meant it as a joke...it is not a joke as we see with the Allstate/Gas Buddy connection!
 
I make the assumption that every app that I install on my phone is doing something similar, unless proven otherwise.
Smart move.

Chances are that most are already aware that a high percentage of internet web-sites have/allow third party trackers; my guess is a number greater than 95%. There are search engine options specifically designed to block trackers; they identify and quantify for the user all blocked trackers.
These numbers confirm the massive volume of ongoing online tracking.
 
I make the assumption that every app that I install on my phone is doing something similar, unless proven otherwise.



Smart move.


The stolen data is a huge issue, but these days you really can't avoid it.


How many people connect to their Microsoft account every time they log in?


How about all the "login with Google" or some other company to make it "easier" or "protect" you. Total baloney IMO.


We keep all our important information off of thing like phones, that can be stolen, broker, lost, whatever. I can't imagine carrying around $20,000 in my pocket, but that is possibly the same thing with your phone. Lock it? What if you are using it when someone robs you, like has happened more often these days is somebody points a gun at your head and says "unlock your phone" and then drains your accounts. Our phones aren't even locked and I look at the few apps we use as about the same as using Google or Microsoft, or Apple anything.
 
Look at each app/company and if you can't figure out their business model (how they make money), then YOU are the business model and they're selling your data. Ain't nothin' in life free.
 
I checked Gas Buddy in the App Store. Says it collects Health and Fitness data. I can’t imagine a legitimate reason for that.
 
Technology and big business have successfully morphed humans into goldfish like creatures that love to swim around and around in APP bowls amusingly called smart phones.:)
 

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