Healthcare site data tracking

[DrLeftover]

21 Jan

WASHINGTON (AP) — A little-known side to the government's health insurance website is prompting renewed concerns about privacy, just as the White House is calling for stronger cybersecurity protections for consumers.

It works like this: When you apply for coverage on HealthCare.gov, dozens of data companies may be able to tell that you are on the site. Some can even glean details such as your age, income, ZIP code, whether you smoke or if you are pregnant.

The data firms have embedded connections on the government site. Ever-evolving technology allows for individual Internet users to be tracked, building profiles that are a vital tool for advertisers.

Connections to multiple third-party tech firms were documented by technology experts who analyzed HealthCare.gov, and confirmed by The Associated Press. There is no evidence that personal information from HealthCare.gov has been misused, but the number of outside connections is raising questions.

"As I look at vendors on a website...they could be another potential point of failure," said corporate cybersecurity consultant Theresa Payton. "Vendor management can often be the weakest link in your privacy and security chain."

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150120/us--health_overhaul-privacy-8b7c5d925b.html

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

And this is why even out of curiosity I have never visited the obama care website and never will besides the fact it is everything I am against when it come to government being involved in health care.

 

[+paradox]

f that website and f obamacare...

i'll never go to that site and i'll never get obamacare...

let them fine me to death or come after me, i'll be waiting for those irs thugs...  :fighting:

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

f that website and f obamacare...

i'll never go to that site and i'll never get obamacare...

let them fine me to death or come after me, i'll be waiting for those irs thugs...  :fighting:

I am 100% with you on this one.

 

[+paradox]

f that website and f obamacare...

i'll never go to that site and i'll never get obamacare...

let them fine me to death or come after me, i'll be waiting for those irs thugs...  :fighting:

I am 100% with you on this one.

even though they might see me as a "terrorist" now?

yet those bastards are the true terrorists...