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A federal judge won’t fully end a class action accusing Allstate of using modern technology to surreptitiously track clients and use that information to adjust their insurance rates.
In an opinion filed March 3, U.S. District Judge Jeremy Daniel said a group of Allstate auto insurance customers accused the carrier of cooperating with AllCorp, which owns three Arity subsidiaries, in using a software development kit that tracked customers’ movements and phone usage. Among the applications in question is Allstate’s Drivewise, which like the other technology would only function properly on phones with location information enabled.
The lawsuit was first filed in Chicago federal court, but was quickly followed by other complaints, all of which were consolidated before Judge Daniel in Chicago.
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