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Obamacare Website Giving User Data to Advertising Sites
Cybercast News Service ^ | February 3, 2015 - 10:56 AM | Curtis Kalin

Posted on 02/04/2015 8:54:01 AM PST by Olog-hai

Advertising websites have the ability to obtain a sizable chunk of personal data provided by users of Healthcare.gov.

Following up on a January 20 Associated Press report, a congressional analysis confirmed that in many instances, personal data collected by Healthcare.gov is shared with companies like Google, Yahoo, Twitter, and Advertising.com.

The type of information acquired by these companies includes age, income, zip code, use of tobacco, and pregnancy. …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: advertisers; database; healthcaredotgov; obamacare; obamunism; privacyrights; zerocare

1 posted on 02/04/2015 8:54:01 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

And that money is funneled into the Barry & Michelle retirement fund, I suppose?


2 posted on 02/04/2015 8:55:34 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

bastards.


3 posted on 02/04/2015 8:59:37 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I think you may have hurt obies feelings....




4 posted on 02/04/2015 9:00:27 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Olog-hai

The fact that its illegal doesn’t stop them.


5 posted on 02/04/2015 9:01:24 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You beat me to it!


6 posted on 02/04/2015 9:07:38 AM PST by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: Olog-hai

So is California, I recently was looking to see about Health Insurance, since mine was CANCELLED 2 years ago. And I used my FAX for phone number just because I was curious, it has been ringing off the hook since, with no faxes being sent.


7 posted on 02/04/2015 9:18:49 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: eyeamok

ahaha SMART MOVE!!


8 posted on 02/04/2015 9:25:14 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: left that other site
"bastards."

My response to this criminal activity is as follows:

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9 posted on 02/04/2015 9:59:48 AM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: The Antiyuppie

Indeed. I held back a little.


10 posted on 02/04/2015 10:20:33 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Olog-hai

I wonder how much of a kickback Barack is getting for that.


11 posted on 02/04/2015 10:31:25 AM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Olog-hai

Thanks for posting this HIPAA related story.
Obola, party hacks, crony capitalists deliberately circumvent HIPAA law to make Billions off of your personal health data data mined and shared amongst 8000 HC related entities!
Happy goldfish bowl...

Healthcare datamining
http://dataprivacylab.org/

http://thedatamap.org/

http://patientprivacyrights.org/what-you-can-do-faqs/


12 posted on 02/04/2015 10:54:56 AM PST by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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