InsurTech Futures: Human rights group attacks Admiral’s Facebook insurance plan

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Insurer's app to use social data from young drivers to offer discounted insurance.

Admiral's smartphone app Firstcarquote allowing new drivers to use their social data to get a discount on car insurance has been criticised.

In addition, according to the insurer the launch of the app has been delayed as it is working with Facebook to address "a few outstanding issues".

Meanwhile a blog post from the Open Rights Group stated that the app had been found to be in breach of Facebook's Platform Policy.

The policy states: "Don't use data obtained from Facebook to make decisions about

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