#arity — Public Fediverse posts

Texas #AttorneyGeneral #KenPaxton filed #lawsuit against #Allstate and subsidiary #Arity for unlawfully collecting, using, and selling driving data from over 45 million Americans.
They are accused of paying millions of dollars to app developers to embed tracking code in widely used mobile apps to gather location and movement data of people without their knowledge or consent.
Data was used to profile people’s driving habits and adjust insurance quoting or renewal costs.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/allstate-car-insurer-sued-for-tracking-drivers-without-permission/

Texas #AttorneyGeneral #KenPaxton filed #lawsuit against #Allstate and subsidiary #Arity for unlawfully collecting, using, and selling driving data from over 45 million Americans.
They are accused of paying millions of dollars to app developers to embed tracking code in widely used mobile apps to gather location and movement data of people without their knowledge or consent.
Data was used to profile people’s driving habits and adjust insurance quoting or renewal costs.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/allstate-car-insurer-sued-for-tracking-drivers-without-permission/

#Texas Sues #Allstate Over Its Collection of Driver Data

The lawsuit accuses #Arity , an Allstate subsidiary, of collecting data about people’s driving behavior through mobile phone apps, leading to increases in drivers’ #insurance rates.
#privacy #surveillance #tracking

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/technology/texas-allstate-driver-data-lawsuit.html

#Texas Sues #Allstate Over Its Collection of Driver Data

The lawsuit accuses #Arity , an Allstate subsidiary, of collecting data about people’s driving behavior through mobile phone apps, leading to increases in drivers’ #insurance rates.
#privacy #surveillance #tracking

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/technology/texas-allstate-driver-data-lawsuit.html

Insurance company accused of using secret software to illegally collect and sell location data on millions of Americans https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/01/insurance-company-accused-of-using-secret-software-to-illegally-collect-and-sell-location-data-on-millions-of-americans #drivingbehavior #locationdata #Allstate #movement #Privacy #Arity #News

Insurance company accused of using secret software to illegally collect and sell location data on millions of Americans https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/01/insurance-company-accused-of-using-secret-software-to-illegally-collect-and-sell-location-data-on-millions-of-americans #drivingbehavior #locationdata #Allstate #movement #Privacy #Arity #News

@jwildeboer Looks like software engineers for #CrowdStrike and other manufacturers should’ve read my discourse on #arity : https://www.patreon.com/posts/105326020

@jwildeboer Looks like software engineers for #CrowdStrike and other manufacturers should’ve read my discourse on #arity : https://www.patreon.com/posts/105326020

I wrote in long-form about #arity in #softwareengineering and #softwaredevelopment:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/105326020

How much arity is too much?

I’d like some feedback from you: how much is too much? How much is good? Do we have a rule of thumb?

Arity is the amount of input arguments for a function / method / process / program. Less could be more… unless you write in Java and pass in a context object that holds hundreds of settings.

What say you?

I wrote in long-form about #arity in #softwareengineering and #softwaredevelopment:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/105326020

How much arity is too much?

I’d like some feedback from you: how much is too much? How much is good? Do we have a rule of thumb?

Arity is the amount of input arguments for a function / method / process / program. Less could be more… unless you write in Java and pass in a context object that holds hundreds of settings.

What say you?