Author: Zofia Bednarz

Dr Zofia Bednarz joined the University of Sydney Law School as a Lecturer in January 2022. She teaches and researches in the area of Commercial and Corporate Law. Zofia's current research focuses on the use of new technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, by financial firms and the implications it has for provision of financial services to consumers. She is an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S).

June 20, 2022July 19, 2022 by Zofia Bednarz

Insurance firms can skim your online data to price your insurance — and there’s little in the law to stop this

What if your insurer was tracking your online data to price your car insurance? Seems far-fetched, right? Yet there is predictive value in the digital traces we leave online. And insurers may use data collection and analytics tools to find our data and use it to price insurance services. Looking at several examples from customer loyalty schemes and social media, we found insurers can access vast amounts of consumer data under Australia’s weak privacy laws. Read More