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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Data Ethics
Can ChatGPT Help Insurers be Better at Ethics? public
Data Ethics 4 min read

Can ChatGPT Help Insurers be Better at Ethics?

We’re starting to see OpenAI’s ChatGPT used in discussions about the ethics of insurance. What has surprised some organisers is just how popular discussions like this are with conference audiences. So is the sector’s understanding of ethics about to be transformed? I examine the implications.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
Our Digital Footprint – a Pandora’s Box of Data? public
Data Ethics 7 min read

Our Digital Footprint – a Pandora’s Box of Data?

I gave a keynote speech at a claims and fraud conference this week, on whether insurers’ exploitation of our digital footprint could turn into a Pandora’s box. Insurers see these new lines of insight as creating competitive advantage, but could they instead cause real problems?…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
Avoiding Pitfalls when Developing Data Ethics Principles public
Data Ethics 5 min read

Avoiding Pitfalls when Developing Data Ethics Principles

As business wakes up to the ethical issues around how they use data and analytics, firms are being urged to develop ethical principles to guide their data ethics initiatives. Yet what counts as an ethical principle? I look at an example of how firms could get off to the wrong start.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
The Data Protection Risks from Discriminatory Pricing public
Privacy 4 min read

The Data Protection Risks from Discriminatory Pricing

A key issue that insurers face when responding to concerns about discriminatory pricing is their handling of special category data. What is held and how it’s used are subject to all sorts of conditions. So what implications might this have for insurers and regulators?…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
The Fairness of Insurance Pricing is Challenged Again public
Discrimination 8 min read

The Fairness of Insurance Pricing is Challenged Again

The fairness of insurance pricing is again being challenged, this time by the UK’s leading campaigning journalist on finance matters. Martin Lewis believes insurers are breaking the law in how they handle people with mental health issues. The only surprise is how long this has taken to emerge.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
New UK Survey on Public Attitudes to AI public
Data Ethics 2 min read

New UK Survey on Public Attitudes to AI

A major new UK survey into public attitudes to AI has been launched. Its scope will pick up on several technologies relevant to the digital transformation of insurance. Its findings will influence policy makers, both in terms of possible legislation and pressure on regulators.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
Can Insurers Tackle Discriminatory Pricing in Time? public
Discrimination 7 min read

Can Insurers Tackle Discriminatory Pricing in Time?

The hugely significant issue of discriminatory pricing has entered its second phase, with Citizens Advice issuing a report on what it expects the regulator and insurers to do next. It’s an intriguing report, full of expectations, pathways and warnings. So what does it add up to?…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
Are IFB ambitions in danger of hitting a brick wall? public
Counter Fraud 5 min read

Are IFB ambitions in danger of hitting a brick wall?

Counter fraud data sharing in the UK market is heading for new heights. How we’re scored on fraud from the moment we seek a quote will be automated and in real time. Yet for all this strategic ambition, there remains no mention of accountability. Recent events point to that being a big omission.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
Worrying Signs of Regulatory Drift on Data public
Regulation 3 min read

Worrying Signs of Regulatory Drift on Data

Is the FCA drifting off course on data and analytics? A recent speech seems to point to this. For insurers, the ‘false sense of security’ this creates matters less in the short term, more in the mid to long term. It introduces a systemic risk into the digital transformation happening in insurance.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
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