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Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

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Post by aksss »

shevy-java wrote: post #3

The US citizens will have to fight down those corporate overlords. It is now really just shameful how they leech off of the common man (and common woman). People in democracies outside of the USA shake their head in sadness now. Even Canada is doing better here - don't tell anyone the crazy orange king, for he may begin to potty-mouth and threaten them with invasion again.

corporate overlords? These are the state governments selling your data. The call is coming from inside the house. The sooner we realize that government is comprised of the same slithering slime of human greed and laziness, the more realistic discussions we can have.

Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

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Post by dekhn »

nickthegreek wrote: post #20
nickff wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you please cite the source for that quote? I looked for it, but couldn't find a source; it seems like an AI hallucination.

Why would you call it an hallucination because you cant find immediately locate the source? You didnt say what in the single sentence would make you jump to that conclusion. I highlighted SirFatty's text, looked up on google and first result show it near verbatim on cdc.gov. https://www.cdc.gov/phlp/php/resources/health-insurance-port...

Here's the original text of the bill's purpose; very little of the bill talks about privacy, and most of the rules around that are part of the HHS Privacy Rule.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve portability and continuity of health insurance coverage in the group and individual markets, to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in health insurance and health care delivery, to promote the use of medical savings accounts, to improve access to long-term care services and coverage, to simplify the administration of health insurance, and for other purposes.

Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

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Post by post-it »

Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #14
wewtyflakes wrote: post #5

It should be illegal to send the data, and illegal to accept it; burn both sides of that bridge.

Why would politicians ever pass such a law? Who do you think they work for? update: Yeah, my bad. The point of this comment was to express my increasing cynicism at how we just keep seeing this kind of corporate behavior over and over again and how even when a tiny win is achieved on things like data collection, right to repair, ease for cancelling subscriptions, privacy, and so on and so on, they are so quickly over…

What's the point of this kind of comment? Have pro-citizen anti-corporate laws never been passed in the past?

Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

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Post by wat10000 »

Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #14
wewtyflakes wrote: post #5

It should be illegal to send the data, and illegal to accept it; burn both sides of that bridge.

Why would politicians ever pass such a law? Who do you think they work for? update: Yeah, my bad. The point of this comment was to express my increasing cynicism at how we just keep seeing this kind of corporate behavior over and over again and how even when a tiny win is achieved on things like data collection, right to repair, ease for cancelling subscriptions, privacy, and so on and so on, they are so quickly over…

Ideally because we'd vote in politicians who would do it, and vote out those who didn't.

Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

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Post by wilg »

post-it wrote: post #23
Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would politicians ever pass such a law? Who do you think they work for? update: Yeah, my bad. The point of this comment was to express my increasing cynicism at how we just keep seeing this kind of corporate behavior over and over again and how even when a tiny win is achieved on things like data collection, right to repair, ease for cancelling subscriptions, privacy, and so on and so on, they are so quickly over…

What's the point of this kind of comment? Have pro-citizen anti-corporate laws never been passed in the past?

The point of the comment is to spread toxic and deadly cynicism.

Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

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Post by goda90 »

wewtyflakes wrote: post #5

It should be illegal to send the data, and illegal to accept it; burn both sides of that bridge.

Every piece of data collected should be an opt-in both for the initial collection and any sharing to a third party. There should be an explanation for why it is collected and an explanation for what features are not possible if it is not collected. It should be a violation of the law to disable a feature based on failure to opt-in for data points that aren't absolutely necessary for the operation of that feature.

Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

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Post by applfanboysbgon »

Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #14
wewtyflakes wrote: post #5

It should be illegal to send the data, and illegal to accept it; burn both sides of that bridge.

Why would politicians ever pass such a law? Who do you think they work for? update: Yeah, my bad. The point of this comment was to express my increasing cynicism at how we just keep seeing this kind of corporate behavior over and over again and how even when a tiny win is achieved on things like data collection, right to repair, ease for cancelling subscriptions, privacy, and so on and so on, they are so quickly over…

They work for the people. In some countries, people actually vote for politicians that benefit the population. In other countries, people repeatedly vote for politicians despite knowing that those politicians are only interested in enriching themselves, with a track record going back decades of doing nothing but that. The problem, then, is the voters in certain countries, not the politicians.

Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

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Post by traderj0e »

wilg wrote: post #25
post-it wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the point of this kind of comment? Have pro-citizen anti-corporate laws never been passed in the past?

The point of the comment is to spread toxic and deadly cynicism.

If you never trust anyone, nobody will ever fool you except for yourself.

Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

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Post by traderj0e »

wewtyflakes wrote: post #5

It should be illegal to send the data, and illegal to accept it; burn both sides of that bridge.

At least make it an explicitly protected right to lie about your race in any context. It's a lot easier to ruin a dataset than it is to hide from it.

Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

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Post by fusslo »

> Nearly all of the 20 state-run health insurance exchanges in the US have added advertising trackers that transmit user activity

...why?

> State officials say they embed this technology on the exchanges to measure marketing campaigns and to advertise to people who visit their sites

What an absurdist reality we live in

> Tara Lee, a spokesperson for the Washington state exchange, said the tracker on the site was used for advertising campaigns, adding that email, phone and country identifiers were shared with TikTok.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-healthcare-advertisi...

Personally, I feel local government should not be engaging these services in this way. I don't feel that it's a wise use and that our government employees should be more protective of the public who use their services.

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