Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Allstate on Tuesday alleging the company covertly monitored customers' driving habits in a bid to raise rates.  The suit, which was filed in Montgomery County,

An expert said the auto industry should pay attention to Texas' data privacy laws: "What Texas has done is funded it, staffed it and supported it."

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued automaker General Motors in August, claiming that GM illegally collected data about drivers, which it then sold to insurance providers. Now, the AG’s office has filed another similar lawsuit, this time against an insurance company itself.

Legislators and Data Privacy Experts are voicing growing concerns about the amount of data that car manufacturers and insurance companies can access and use.

Paxton accuses Allstate of collecting driver location and movement data without consent to raise insurance rates in the state.

Allstate and affiliates are accused of illicitly obtaining drivers’ data to build the “world’s largest driving behavior database.”

According to the lawsuit, AllState and its subsidiary harvested trillions of miles of location data from over 45 million insured customers across the nation, resulting in the 'world's largest driving behavior database.