Texans are feeling violated after a major insurance company is publically accussed of tracking drivers locations and sold to third party companies.

Allstate's motto "You're in good hands" is being questioned after the company was hit with a lawsuit by the great state of Texas.

Texas sues Allstate over illegal tracking

The State of Texas hit Allstate with a lawsuit on Monday. The massive insurance company is being accused of illegally tracking drivers through their subsidiary, Arity, who claims to have "the world's largest driving behavior database."

The New York Times shared last year that apps like Life360 and GasBuddy were tracking how people drive and selling that info to Arity. Arity then looked at the data to figure out how often people sped, slammed on the brakes, or got distracted by their phones while driving. Then, they used that info to give each driver a risk score.

Why does that matter?

Well, it's what Arity did with the data. “Insurers then used that consumer’s data to justify increasing their car insurance premiums, denying them coverage, or dropping them from coverage,” according to the attorney general’s lawsuit.

However, Allstate denies that they engaged in anything illegal. They explained that the data collected actually "helps customers get the most accurate auto insurance price..." However, millions of Americans claim they were never "informed, nor consented to," their data being collected.

“Allstate and Arity paid mobile apps millions of dollars to install Allstate’s tracking software,” Ken Paxton, the state’s attorney general, said in a statement.

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