It should be illegal to send the data, and illegal to accept it; burn both sides of that bridge.
It's a tracking pixel. They fool you into sending it.
US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
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Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
#52Earlier 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?
Only when Congress might be embarrassed. The VPPA exists so we can't find out what videos they watch in their spare time between orgies.
Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ideally because we'd vote in politicians who would do it, and vote out those who didn't.
Is that even possible in the US anymore with donations and corporate backing being so important to a campaign?
It's possible. Ultimately the voters do make the decision, even if they can be swayed. How realistic it might be, I can't say. We certainly need a lot more engagement with the process. There are far too many people ignoring the primaries and then complaining about their lack of choice in the general.
Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
#54The richest tech companies and richest men in the world got rich by invading people's privacy and selling invasive ads.
They got rich because people were stupid enough to think free services come without a cost.
Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is that even possible in the US anymore with donations and corporate backing being so important to a campaign?
I don't believe donations or corporate backing had anything to do with Trump, for example, winning. Trump won because he genuinely appeals to the average voting American. American voters are willingly choosing to support these politicians and all of the consequences that entails.
Both can be true.
Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
#56Earlier 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…
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.
In some countries a major party has succeeded in convincing a majority of voters to vote against their self interest by leveraging "red meat" topics such as abortion, jesus and guns.
Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
#57Cookie Banner isn't such a bad idea now
Nah, it’s still stupid and pointless
Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
#58I’m more annoyed that these government healthcare marketplaces are asking people their race in the first place. Really don’t think anything should be, including job applications.
Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
#59It should be illegal to send the data, and illegal to accept it; burn both sides of that bridge.
It's a tracking pixel. They fool you into sending it.
The relevant facts are that the website owner voluntarily put the tracking code on their own website, and the tracking code worked as designed.
Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
#60Earlier 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?
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