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If You Forget to Charge Your Phone Every Night, Your Insurance Company Might See You as High Risk

Do you charge your smart phone at night before bed time so you wake up with a 100% charge?

The reason I ask is that if you don't, and you forget to plug in before bed and then wake up with a depleted battery, it's possible your insurance company could notice. Your insurer could code you as a higher risk because you're not organized.

Seriously.

I first heard this story from a state lawmaker a month ago, and I couldn't get it out of my mind. How could it possibly be true?

Then I heard it from the cyber expert who first told the lawmaker about this. The expert testified about the practice at a Texas House hearing last week.

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