Could Twitter and FourSquare Users See Home Insurance Impacted? Possibly, Yes
Last week, snarky PleaseRobMe garnered attention for reporting when users of the location-based social network FourSquare were out and about. (PleaseRobMe pulls the locations from Twitter, which displays their check-in information, and broadcasts it under the flip heading “Recent Empty Homes.”) Now, in a smart advancement of the story, a UK-based insurance comparison site called Confused.com -- owned by car insurance giant Admiral Group -- suggests that as FourSquare and its ilk heighten the risk of homes getting burgled, insurance providers will react. “Criminals are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their information gathering, even using Google Earth and Street View to plan their burglaries with military precision,” says Darren Black, the head of
