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Obamacare website sends your data to private companies
CNN MONEY ^ | January 21, 2015 | By Jose Pagliery

Posted on 01/21/2015 10:15:12 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee

Healthcare.gov, the federal website where you sign up for Obamacare, is quietly sharing your personal information with private companies.

The evidence is in the computer code on the website itself. It shows that Healthcare.gov is relaying certain information, such as your zip code, income level, pregnancy status and whether or not you smoke.

That information is being shared with several third parties. DoubleClick is a Google (GOOG) subsidiary that serves up advertisements and tracks your movements online. Healthcare.gov also shares your data with Google, Twitter (TWTR, Tech30), Yahoo (YHOO, Tech30), YouTube and others.

"People's private medical data should not be available to third party companies without consent from the user," EFF staff technologist Cooper Quintin argued in a blog post. "This practice is negligent at best."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; healthcareprivacy; hippa; obamacare; privatedata
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Here’s a graphic of how everyone’s healthcare data is currently shared among 880,000 HC entities.

http://thedatamap.org/


21 posted on 01/21/2015 11:31:50 AM PST by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Bump


22 posted on 01/21/2015 12:14:59 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: Adder

All Democrats are exempt.....................


23 posted on 01/21/2015 12:51:16 PM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

It’s for your own good!!!


24 posted on 01/21/2015 1:06:14 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: upchuck; MarchonDC09122009; All

[Third parties, like Google, Twitter, et al, typically pay for info that is shared. Wonder who is getting paid for our info?]

The White House owes Google, Twitter, Yahoo, Amazon, etc. for unofficial in-kind PR. But there are thousands of bureaucrats who could tap into this multimillion name mail/email list and sell it to retailers. No doubt the DNC has access. The individual health profiles of enrollees are invaluable to insurance companies calculating personal risk. I doubt this happened by accident.


25 posted on 01/21/2015 2:12:21 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Fascinating angle you raise, ie: who in this administration is gaining from data mining the American people’s healthcare patient information?
Dangerous question to ask that could give someone who digs too deep, a bad case of Obola Chicago strain.
What fearless investigator would take this on?


26 posted on 01/21/2015 3:04:20 PM PST by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: MarchonDC09122009
[What fearless investigator would take this on?]

Maybe Sharyl Attkisson.

http://sharylattkisson.com/

27 posted on 01/21/2015 3:08:53 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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28 posted on 01/21/2015 6:35:04 PM PST by MtnMan101
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Are the companies getting data or their officers financially supporting the Democrats and Obama. IS THIS A PAY TO PLAY SCHEME.


29 posted on 01/21/2015 8:32:43 PM PST by airedale
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