Privacy

Uhhhh, this ain't cool Nevada, Maine, Rhode Island and Massachusetts:

State-run health care websites around the country, meant to provide a simple way to shop for insurance, have been quietly sending visitors’ sensitive health information to Google and social media companies, The Markup and CalMatters found.

The data, including prescription drug names and dosages, was sent by web trackers on state exchanges set up under the Affordable Care Act to help Americans purchase health coverage.

As visitors answered the questions, their responses were sent to LinkedIn and Snapchat, according to tests conducted by The Markup and CalMatters in April and May.

On the other side of the country, Maine’s exchange, CoverME.gov, sent information on drug prescriptions and dosages to Google through an analytics tool. It also sent the names of doctors and hospitals that people had previously visited.

This kind of crap is so common. I'm an old notepad coder, but I've worked on modern sites where the code is all modules you load from some dev kit. You don't write that shit, you call it up. And now we have vibe coders who are even further removed from the actual electrons. You can expect that your data is exposed out there somewhere.

When my guys were doing this stuff, I brought in Google Analytics so we could analyze users' pathway through the site and tune its effectiveness. It was a truly useful tool that took us beyond what web logs could tell us. The job happened to be a school. With FERPA requirements. My GA work got audited. I passed.

Any and all data about you that's already out there is being sold.

This just the reality. Nothin can be done about the old data if it already leaked.

Fling forward, limit your data exposure to must have use cases only.

Educate people around so maybe one day, maybe after enough regime whores get killed, congress will do a thing but prolly for themselves only🤡

BC fuck u peasant