How nosey insurers use Facebook plus your weekly shop to maintain tabs on you

Picture your global where no person ever posts anything on web 2 . 0 about nights out or evenings slobbing while watching TV; instead they share information regarding work meetings, or strategies for accounting apps. Why? Because exhibiting exactly this sort of “conscientious” behaviour on social media could potentially shave many hundreds of pounds off your insurance charges, it emerged recently.

Motor insurer Admiral announced that it was intending to use web 2 . 0 to analyse the personalities of first-time drivers. If their Facebook posts indicated that you had characteristics Admiral could check out safer driving habits and fewer claims, annual discounts as high as