BeKindRewind

Your question is what is not decided yet. The merger of surveillance capitalism and the federal government is something warned about decades ago and now it’s here. It takes years for this stuff to make it’s way through courts and up to SCOTUS (assuming it will get there).

Your point makes sense because a ruling against flock could also impact the tech companies that have been doing invasive tracking, arguably even more invasive, for decades. What makes flock different though are the direct contracts with governments.

There is a recent case that may support all this being illegal. SCOTUS recently ruled governments using geofencing data does constituent a search and therefore 4th amendment protections.

They care about European markets and ensuring those markets can compete. This is all public day to day infrastructure now. It’s about long-term survival.

True. The issue is how prevalent it is now. Any moron can do it now.

Horrible loss for consumers in the long-run as there are already patents showing what monitoring is coming next. Eventually everyone will have to allow this kind of tracking to have an affordable rate. The data will be used for lots of other purposes besides auto insurance.

In the short-term consumers get immediate savings, so I expect this to be popular since we’re all hurting out here.