(Reuters) – Allstate (NYSE:ALL) has been sued by the state of Texas, which accused the insurer of unlawfully collecting consumers’ driving data and then using the data to justify raising insurance rates.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Monday that Allstate, through its Arity data analytics unit, paid mobile app developers to secretly incorporate its software, and then collected location data from more than 45 million consumers nationwide by tracking cellphone movements through the apps.
