The ethical minefield that is anonymised data
The insurance market is being increasingly drawn to the benefits of ‘big data’. Yet one of the principal ways in…
Privacy
There are many dimensions to privacy. Heading up the list of concerns that the public have in relation to insurance are secondary use and consent. Insurers that can understand and manage these two properly will be much better placed to gain the public's trust.
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Ethics and Insurance Claims – Part 4 – the balancing act that is Privacy
This is the fourth in a series of posts about ethical issues associated with
insurance claims.
The insurance contract is…
Privacy and Consent: some examples for a proactive insurer
Consent seems to have been largely taken for granted by the insurance sector.
Cover came with automatic terms and conditions…
Privacy and Consent – pt5 – Time for a New Mindset?
Consent may at first sight seem a rather foreign term for the business world to
spend time considering. That’s…
Privacy, identification and the challenges insurers face
Insurers have always needed to know something about us in order to assess the
risk we’re seeking insurance for.…
Privacy, identification and the need to know: who decides?
In this second of three posts about privacy and identification, I’ll look at how
identification can also encompass how…
Privacy and Identification – pt4 – we all like to put our best side forward
Our personal identify is perhaps our most treasured possession. It defines who
we are and reflects how we want others…
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…
Privacy and Surveillance – pt3 – insurers need some mutual self insurance
In my preceeding post
[https://www.ethicsandinsurance.info/2012/11/14/privacy-surveillance-pt3-balancing-act/]
about the privacy issues thrown up by surveillance,…