Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Allstate Corporation and its subsidiary, Arity, for allegedly engaging in unlawful practices to collect, use, and sell sensitive driving and location data from over 45 million Americans, including millions of Texans.
The lawsuit, filed in Montgomery County District Court on Jan. 13, accuses Allstate and Arity of embedding tracking software into popular mobile apps, such as Life360, to secretly gather detailed data about users’ movements. According to the complaint, the companies allegedly paid app developers millions of dollars to integrate this software, allowing them to collect information such as geolocation, speed, and other driving behaviors. The data, described as the foundation of the “world’s largest driving behavior database,” was allegedly sold to other insurers and used to justify raising insurance rates.
