Monday, December 12, 2011

What Insurers Could Do With Your 'Social Media Score'

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Here's yet another reason to watch what you say and do online: Insurance companies are already surfing social media sites to get the scoop about their customers, and what their data-miners find may soon be compiled into a new way to rate you as a risk: a social networking score.

Right now, vendors are building tools to automate the process of searching social media. Such technology would allow insurers and other companies to more easily mine data from Facebook, Twitter and other sites,...

What Insurers Could Do With Your 'Social Media Score' originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2011-12-12T07:00:00Z.

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