Allstate Narrows Privacy Case Over Driver Data Collection (1)

Allstate Corp. was able to convince a federal court to dismiss some claims from a proposed class action alleging that the insurance giant used detailed customer information tracking to make coverage and premium decisions.

The plaintiffs contend that Allstate paid third-party applications to install tracking tools to collect real-time driving data and personal information.

The lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois says the software development kit applied to the applications had no reliable way to determine if a person was actually driving at the time of the data collection, but that information still ...