Car companies give info on driving patterns to LexisNexis -- only in the USA, or here too?

[dbartram]

Some car companies in the USA use car connectivity to pass info on driving habits to LexisNexis, which then sells it to insurance companies (with implications for premiums): link

Tesla isn't mentioned. Nor is there any discussion of whether this practice happens outside the US.

Even if it doesn't happen here yet, I imagine it is coming.

 

[ajmorr.is]

Don't forget that data protection in the US is very different and way more lax than ours, and non-existant at a federal level. There's a good summary here; Law in United States - DLA Piper Global Data Protection Laws of the World

Thankfully we're quite a bit better at it, and any adoption of this kind of quasi-clandestine monitoring would not fly without express opt in - rather than opt out which is the US model - from the user, probably on the premise of safer driving = cheaper insurance.