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Hospitals Now Use Consumers’ Personal Habits (from credit card purchases) To Predict Health Issues
Consumerist ^
| June 26, 2014
| Ashley Kieler
Posted on 06/26/2014 3:36:21 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: montanajoe
The fact is there is a thriving and growing private industry that is far more intrusive into people's private lives than the government will ever be.BS. Even if private industry dices and chops your data more, their motivation is to sell you something; not to ration health care, put you on a political enemies list or anything of a sinister nature.
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posted on
06/26/2014 5:00:03 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Vigilanteman
Whatever..cant argue with dumb
To: Innovative
Fight the tyrants; use cash.
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posted on
06/26/2014 5:06:28 PM PDT
by
grumpygresh
(Democrats delenda est. New US economy: Fascism on top, Socialism on the bottom.)
To: grania
So on my profile it would seem that I live on dog food! So they'll know what flavor to give you in detention camp.
Nothing too interesting in my profile -- and I use debit cards normally for which I don't think the same detailed item info is available -- but if I decide to buy some mj next month when the stores open here I'm going to use cash.
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posted on
06/26/2014 5:09:24 PM PDT
by
steve86
( Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
To: Scrambler Bob
"What credit card purchase info will indicate homo activities?"
It wouldn't make any difference, because at least some hospitals have too many weirdos in staff (as in curly-permed, lilting, limp-wristed, flaming, obviously drugged, etc.). They're probably very vigilant at looking for more trivial bad habits in others.
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posted on
06/26/2014 5:21:00 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: Innovative
Use cash. Your purchases are none of the crooks’ business.
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posted on
06/26/2014 5:21:59 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: Vigilanteman; montanajoe
Some officials in some local governments also look at such information on some private individuals—sometimes for a government-linked crony’s gain. They also have access to cell phone records (including cell phone movements)—some from their own fancy communications centers and others through federal offices.
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posted on
06/26/2014 5:26:17 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: Vigilanteman
BS. Even if private industry dices and chops your data more, their motivation is to sell you something; not to ration health care, put you on a political enemies list or anything of a sinister nature. But will they resist the temptation to sell your data to activist groups who want to target you?
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posted on
06/26/2014 5:26:42 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: ElkGroveDan
Making the assumption of course that individuals consume every item they purchase. I can just hear the doctor now, "Sir, we need to point out that tampons should only be used as feminine care products. Years ago, I read a futurist report from a computer company working with data analysis. They gave a case study called "The Pregnant Gay Man" to illustrate that assumptions can be wrong, and suggested that a gay man could buy a lot of stuff about pregnancy from Amazon to throw his sister a baby shower, and the purchases shouldn't end up in his data profile -- but there would be little way for a computer to actually know why he bought that stuff or to screen it out.
Of course, that was years ago, before there actually was a preganant gay man.
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posted on
06/26/2014 5:53:55 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
To: Vigilanteman; montanajoe
Even if private industry dices and chops your data more, their motivation is to sell you something; not to ration health care, put you on a political enemies list or anything of a sinister nature. Or rather, the motive is to sell anybody anything. They've been selling contact info to telemarketers and junk mailers for decades. They would happily sell any other data to interested parties.
Besides, any of them that already boast about being involved in some do-gooder "public private partnership" has already telegraphed for which team they play. Those partnerships are nothing but master-servant relationships.
So-called private industry is a thin veneer for the crony capitalism fascist state. Communism by proxy.
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posted on
06/26/2014 6:05:23 PM PDT
by
Ezekiel
(All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
To: Innovative
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posted on
06/27/2014 1:27:44 AM PDT
by
gattaca
(The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. Ecclesiastes10:2)
To: Veggie Todd
My dealer takes the SNAP card...
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posted on
06/27/2014 2:07:38 AM PDT
by
metesky
(My investment program is holding steady @ $0.05 cents a can.)
To: familyop
If you have no trail at all, they will assume that you must be using things that are bad.
You can’t win.
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posted on
06/27/2014 2:29:56 AM PDT
by
dforest
To: montanajoe
If you browse the Internet someone somewhere is collecting your data Apparently, the internet has decided that I am very lonely for male companionship. On certain websites, I see huge ads with pictures of many attractive men. Supposedly, if I go to the ad website, I can contact one of those men.
Sometimes, the ads decide that I am looking for Christian men and show the appropriate pictures.
This happens at home and at work. I've been married 33 years. I don't know why I keep seeing all the singles ads.
OTOH, we're planning a vacation to Florida. I'm seeing a lot of Florida ads now, too. They show up below the single men ads.
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posted on
06/27/2014 3:24:22 AM PDT
by
exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
To: Innovative
I have no doubt they will mismatch credit records on file and it will be nearly impossible to correct.
To: Innovative
This gets ugly really fast.
“You’re obese, so the supermarket forbids you to buy Little Debbie”
“You’re buying too much alcohol. I don’t care if you SAY you’re having a party - not allowed.”
“Your doctor says you complained about high cholesterol. You aren’t allowed to buy beef unless it is our premium, ultra-lean.”
“You’re buying a lot of romantic items like chocolate and wine on 2/13. The health insurer wants to remind you that you don’t have a contraceptive prescription. You ought to add condoms to your purchase.”
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posted on
06/27/2014 8:51:11 AM PDT
by
tbw2
To: Albion Wilde
Now we’ll end up with straw purchasers not just illegal for guns, but high calorie foods and products related to embarrassing medical conditions.
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posted on
06/27/2014 8:52:17 AM PDT
by
tbw2
To: tbw2
If anyone haven’t seen it, it’s worth it — this is how it’s going to be sooner, rather than later — along the lines you were suggesting:
“Ordering pizza” — for once ACLU is on the right side:
https://www.aclu.org/ordering-pizza
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posted on
06/27/2014 8:54:41 AM PDT
by
Innovative
("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
To: Innovative
It is a pity the ACLU doesn’t stand up enough to the Obama administration, only the most egregious issues.
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posted on
06/27/2014 11:04:35 AM PDT
by
tbw2
To: dforest
"If you have no trail at all, they will assume that you must be using things that are bad."
That's irrelevant, and any such assumptions about me would be in the minds of immoral criminals. A man should be impeccable without fear of such trash. Privacy is an American right and a human right despite the lies of the vain, criminal effete.
"You cant win."
Those are words of corruption. Hopefully, those will not be your words for long.
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posted on
06/27/2014 11:17:26 AM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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