Such as information about the kind of music or talk radio programs you like to listen to. And where you shop for gas and groceries. And also information about how you drive – so as to "share" that information with the insurance mafia. So that the mafia can "adjust" what you're forced to pay the mafia based on that information.

Well, it appears that Toyota may be collecting – and "sharing" – your information, too. At least, so asserts a class action lawsuit filed in federal court in Texas. The suit alleges that "Toyota and Connected Analytic Services (CAS) collected vast amounts of vehicle data, including location, speed, direction, braking and swerving/cornering events, and then shared that information with Progressive's Snapshot data sharing program."

What is "Connected Analytic Services"? Dial up the web site and you'll find that it touts "leveraging data to empower drivers." A more Orwellian example of doublethink would be hard to conjure. How are drivers "empowered" by leveraging their data? The term is italicized to make the point that leverage is what is held over someone by the individual or entity wielding it. Like the insurance mafia, for instance. The information is leveraged – in this case – to extort more money from the people forced to do business with the mafia, by claiming that "swerving/cornering events" – and of course "speeding" – constitute unsafe driving habits and those habits correlate with a higher likelihood of the driver being the cause of  an accident and a possible payout for damages. Ergo, the mafia claims, it is legitimate to extort more money in anticipation of such damages. 

In italics to make a point about the fact that the damages have not actually been incurred and may never be. You can be a driver who never has an "accident" (as these events are typically styled, implying they just kind of happen, like a sudden summer downpour) but because you drive faster than the speed limit or with spirit (i.e., "swerving/cornering events") to get around the drivers whose spirit has been crushed by the mafia's extortion and the ubiquity of traffic cops who serve as the mafia's de facto enforcers, the mafia can and will extort more money from you. 

On the basis of the information about your driving habits "shared" by Toyota/Connected Data Services with the mafia.