Texas has sued insurance provider Allstate, alleging that the firm and its data broker subsidiary used data from apps like GasBuddy, Routely, and Life360 to quietly track drivers and adjust or cancel their policies.

How Did Allstate Do It? The lawsuit claims that Allstate paid app developers millions of dollars to surreptitiously integrate its tracking software into popular apps. These mobile

According to the lawsuit, AllState and its subsidiary harvested trillions of miles of location data from over 45 million insured customers across the nation, resulting in the 'world's largest driving behavior database.