Good afternoon everyone, happy Friday!  Last week, I wrote Chase Saved Account Manager: Track Where your Credit Cards are Stored Online & in Mobile Wallets.  In that post, I showed you what the Chase Saved Account Manager was and how you can see which websites and apps have your Chase credit card information stored.  In today’s post, I will review a similar feature from Allstate.

Laura and I use Allstate for our home and car insurance.  I have the Allstate app on my phone and received a notification about a service called the Allstate Digital Footprint.  Similar to the Chase Saved Account Manager, the Allstate Digital Footprint shows you which websites have your information saved, which types of information they have, and if any of those companies had a security breach that exposed your information.  I will go through all the steps to set up your Allstate Digital Footprint in this blog post, but if you want to see a high level overview, check out this short YouTube video.

The Allstate Digital Footprint is only available to Allstate members.  If you are not an Allstate member, I believe you can subscribe to Allstate Identity Protection, but I’m not sure if it is worth the monthly subscription cost.  I believe you can access the service online, but I went through the Allstate mobile app and took screenshots along the way.  When you open the Allstate app, you should see a tile that mentions your digital footprint. Click the Get Started button to begin.  The service scans your email to see which companies you have a digital relationship with, so you must connect your email to the Allstate app.  To learn more about the service, click the Digital Footprint link.

Here is how the service works.  To get started, click on your email provider.

Sign into your email account and allow Allstate to have access to view your email messages and send email on your behalf (I will explain why that is needed below).

Make sure all 4 checkboxes are selected and click the Allow button.

The service will now scan your email to locate which companies you have a digital relationship with.  This process should take 1-2 minutes.

When the scan is finished, you can see all of the companies that you have a digital relationship with.  I scrolled through the list and saw 4 services that had been breached.

I then clicked the Breaches tab to see all the breaches in 1 screen.  I clicked on Drizly first to learn more.

I then saw information about the Drizly breach that was announced on July 2, 2020 along with the type of information that was exposed.  I then clicked the Mark as Reviewed button.

Once you have reviewed the breach, you have the ability to request that your data be deleted (kind of pointless now since the information has already been stolen).  I clicked the Delete Data button.  I then confirmed that I wanted my personal information deleted and account deactivated by clicking the Delete Data button.

I received a confirmation message that my delete data request was sent to Drizly.

I went into my sent folder for my email and found the email that was sent to Drizly (on my behalf).  The email looks like a standard email template that could apply to many companies and services.  The email does mention the GDPR and the CCPA, so this service may only be available to Californian residents or companies located in California or who do business in California.  I’m not 100% sure.

I received a confirmation email that my deletion request was received and then I received an email saying my Drizly account was closed.  The email did not directly state that my information was deleted.

Back on the Allstate app, I reviewed all 4 breaches.  I use Kickstarter and will probably use Ticketfly again someday, so I didn’t want to delete my accounts with those companies.  I clicked on the Activity button and it showed me a list of activities that I performed in the app.  I also clicked the Manage Email button.

The service allows you to connect up to 5 email addresses, so I went through the steps to add my 2 other email accounts.  On the bottom of the screen, there is a View Globe button.

Your “Globe” will show you all the digital relationships you have and you can click on a light blue dot to see information about the relationship.  This view is not very helpful, so I would stick with the previous screen for identifying companies.

I’ve only used the Allstate Digital Footprint for a few days, so it is too soon to know how useful the service will be and if it will notify me of new breaches as new breaches are discovered and reported.  If you are an existing Allstate member, the service should be free, so I would recommend setting up your account to see if/where your information has been breached.  If you are not an Allstate member, you need to decide if this service is something you would pay for.  If you have any questions about the Allstate Digital Footprint, please leave a comment below.  Have a great weekend everyone!