Social media privacy: Insurance companies want access to your Facebook

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 18, 2010

[ Thanks to Petem for
this link. ]

“Sometime in the future, you wind up in a car accident
and suffer physical injuries that you decide can be claimed in a
lawsuit against the insurance company. Now your friends on Facebook
may not have any choice of getting to know you up close and in
person. You may not even be aware that they are being questioned.

“Insurance companies are beginning to demand access to
information about you and they do not want your explicit consent.
In a Globe and Mail report, the insurance industry wants to use
sites such as Facebook to collect and use background information
collected to contradict any evidence you have used in your claim
for damages.”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

Linux Today Logo

LinuxToday is a trusted, contributor-driven news resource supporting all types of Linux users. Our thriving international community engages with us through social media and frequent content contributions aimed at solving problems ranging from personal computing to enterprise-level IT operations. LinuxToday serves as a home for a community that struggles to find comparable information elsewhere on the web.

Property of TechnologyAdvice. © 2026 TechnologyAdvice. All Rights Reserved

Advertiser Disclosure: Some of the products that appear on this site are from companies from which TechnologyAdvice receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear. TechnologyAdvice does not include all companies or all types of products available in the marketplace.