Over 45 million consumers nationwide may be affected, the Attorney General’s Office reported

Texas AG’s office sues Allstate for unlawful location, movement data collection (Copyright freestocks-photos)

SAN ANTONIO – Allstate and its subsidiary, Arity, are being sued by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for allegedly collecting, using and selling data from Texans’ cell phones unlawfully.

According to an online statement from the Attorney General’s Office, the data comes from embedded software in mobile apps, like Life360, which reported Texans’ movement and location.

The Attorney General said Allstate would use Arity, a data analytics company, to pay app developers and incorporate its software to track driving data from app users.

Allstate and other insurers then used the obtained data to justify raising Texans’ insurance rates.

According to the statement, Allstate created “the world’s largest driving behavior database” of over 45 million users with trillions of miles of location data.

Under Texas Law, …