I listened to a NYT podcast today about how automakers are selling your data. A specific example is GM/OnStar selling your driving habit data to LexusNexus who in turn sells it to insurance companies but essentially any car that has GPS or a mobile app can be tracked and it's assumed they're all doing it.
A little over a year ago, two of my buddies who travel almost every week for work were talking about how hard it is to get Uber/Lyft to come out to our area, especially at 4-5 a.m. So, I created an LLC and I started driving them to the airport in my wife's Cadillac before I started my day job. They would swipe their corporate cards to my Square account and I was making over a grand a month by using only about 3 hours of my time a week. It was 3 with my buddies talking sports or whatever. Gravy.
Then after years with no claims and no speeding tickets, my insurance company dropped me. No reason cited. It just dawned on me this morning that they probably picked up my driving habits and determined that I was using my car commercially. Which I was, sort of.
Oh well, no harm. I was able to get insurance from another carrier for $200 a month less and I'm not longer driving people to the airport.