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…
Data Ethics
With insurance becoming increasingly digital, data ethics has become the key lens through which issues and challenges are emerging. What makes it particularly important is how it is influencing insurance at both the policy and the market levels.
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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…
Privacy and Aggregation pt2 – ethical challenges for claims managers
In yesterday’s post, I outlined why the public have ethical issues with the
aggregation of data. In this second…
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…
Four metrics that give ethical insight into telematics
Motor underwriters will be avalanched with data as telematics takes off. When
sifting through it all, where should underwriters look…
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…
Telematics – pt3 – fairness
Telematics not only offers insurers some exciting new horizons, but others as
well. Consider the policing of speed limits. Why…
Telematics – pt2 – the ethical upside
In this second of three posts about the ethical dimensions of telematics, I’m
going to sketch out an ethically…
Telematics – pt1 – data
This is the first of three short posts touching on a particular ethical
dimension to how the insurance market’s…