Insurer monitoring your heart rate? Allstate's patent makes it possible
Source: Chicago Tribune
Attention tailgaters: Someday a bank or a potential employer considering your loan or your job application might become privy to your tendencies for aggressive driving.
Northbrook-based Allstate, which last month floated the idea of one day selling the information it collects from policyholders' connected cars, was issued a patent earlier this month for a driving-behavior database that it said might be useful for health insurers, lenders, credit-rating agencies, marketers and potential employers.
Allstate's patent also said the invention has the potential to evaluate drivers' physiological data, including heart rate, blood pressure and electrocardiogram signals, which could be recorded from steering wheel sensors.
"George Orwell wrote this, right?" Bob Hunter, insurance director for Consumer Federation of America and a former Texas insurance commissioner, said after reviewing the patent, which he called "astonishing."
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