Facebook blocks UK insurer from mining data to set premiums

Facebook has hit back at one of its advertisers who aimed to use information derived from user’s accounts to assess whether young people are insurable.
Current Facebook guidelines allow organizations to use Facebook as a means to verify an individual’s identity, but the organization itself is not allowed to use information which it mines from the accounts. Admiral Insurance wanted to mine information from Facebook accounts to judge how insurable young drivers are. Users have to give