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Originally Posted by Old Tele man
...never give "them" an excuse to "badger" yourself: self-incrimination!
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"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
Just replace the word "safety" in the quote with the word "discount". That's the 'bait' - just as "safety" (or security) was the 'bait' when Franklin cautioned against it.
Loss of liberty (and privacy) is being touted by an insurance company under the guise of promoting "safety". Just as mandatory insurance was. I'm not surprised that the company calls itself "Progressive".
Participants will have second thoughts about the program when the subjective data gathered from them is misinterpreted (by and for the benefit of the issuing company, resulting in them raising your rate) with no right of appeal. And the data harvested becomes your ineradicable, recorded 'history'.
What begins as voluntary, often becomes mandatory. The only thing worse than involuntary servitude is voluntary servitude.