Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Randy Bean is a noted Senior Advisor, Author, Speaker, Founder, & CEO. The business of ensuring protection from financial loss and ...

The insurance industry, hungry for insights into how people drive, has turned to automakers and smartphone apps like Life360. By Kashmir Hill Kashmir Hill is a technology reporter who has been ...

Businesses face enormous pressure to protect their data and systems from breaches and cybercrime. Failure to do so could result in devastating financial losses. According to IBM’s Cost of a Data ...

Popular smartphone apps used to track people’s location and provide weather reports may hand over driving data to a firm that sells the information to insurance companies for the purposes of setting ...

Drivers of cars manufactured by General Motors, Honda and other popular brands say that their insurance rates went up after the companies sent data about their driving behavior to issuers without ...

LexisNexis, which generates consumer risk profiles for the insurers, knew about every trip G.M. drivers had taken in their cars, including when they sped, braked too hard or accelerated rapidly. Some ...