Be wary of jumping to easy assumptions about how people behave.
There have been some emotive headlines recently about people with a poor credit
history having to pay more for their…
Autonomy
Autonomy is both simple and complex, ephemeral yet ever present. It’s rarely invoked in an insurance context outside of self-driving vehicles. Yet it’s an ethical issue that is becoming central to the debate on how insurance evolves.
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Privacy and Secondary Use pt2: referral fees and slippery slopes
Secondary use has been a problematic ethical issue for insurers. On the one
hand, insurers reply on information from the…
Privacy and Secondary Use : pt1 : Context, consent and control
We all prefer to exercise some control over what information we divulge about
ourselves and the uses to which that…
Do the parts always add up? Privacy and Aggregation pt1
This is the first post in a short series about those dimensions of privacy that
the insurance sector should pay…
Social media and insurance – the rise of Anecdotal Underwriting?
Insurers are becoming excited about the underwriting insights that could be found in the social media accounts of their policyholders.…
Can you ever get enough risk data from Telematics?
Risks are tricky things to get to grips with. How you identify them, analyse
them and then draw conclusions from…