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

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Post by BowBun »

krior wrote: post #98

Can someone from the US explain what race even means in this context and how it is determined?

Yes, this is a common point of confusion when talking to Europeans about racial issues in the US (as I found out myself recently). Race in our contexts refers to your background/birthplace/heritage. On our government forms: "What race are you?" "White, black, hispanic, etc."

This is fundamentally different by intent than in Europe (using french here) where we refer to 'la race humaine' which is the _species_.

The nuance is critical during debates. While I was discussing racial differences to some Swiss folks, they thought I was talking Nazi propaganda! We are all part of the human species, the human species has many races. We are all equal!

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

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Post by _--__--__ »

krior wrote: post #98

Can someone from the US explain what race even means in this context and how it is determined?

It is self reported according to the US census recognized racial categories: white, black, asian, native American/Alaskan, native Hawaiian or Pacific islander, and other (or two+ categories). Hispanic/latino identification is a separate box you check for reasons that are hard to explain without going over decades of bureaucratic decisions.

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

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Post by idle_zealot »

nickff wrote: post #97
worik wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here in New Zealand those pages and pages of fine print are disappearing as they are no longer enforceable. The only things in a contract that can be enforced must be stated plainly and clearly Turns out there are o ly a few conditions that are actually necessary

Most long contracts are a reaction to 'failure to warn' lawsuits where plaintiffs (successfully) argued that they should have been notified of something. The problem is that when you add up all those 'somethings', you get absurdly long documents.

In effect it seems that people are still not being warned. The legal fiction that they are is exactly the insanity that needs to be thrown out.

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

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Post by Ylpertnodi »

BowBun wrote: post #101
krior wrote: post #98

Can someone from the US explain what race even means in this context and how it is determined?

Yes, this is a common point of confusion when talking to Europeans about racial issues in the US (as I found out myself recently). Race in our contexts refers to your background/birthplace/heritage. On our government forms: "What race are you?" "White, black, hispanic, etc." This is fundamentally different by intent than in Europe (using french here) where we refer to 'la race humaine' which is the _species_. The nua…

Most Europeans are NOT confused by this. Sheesh.

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

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Post by nomel »

tardedmeme wrote: post #75
mcmcmc wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They got rich because people were stupid enough to think free services come without a cost.

People prefer to pay with tracking data instead of money because they have lots of tracking data and not much money.

I would claim it's "better" these days than previously. At first, everyone thought they were getting something for free, no strings. Now it seems that even the "uneducated" public understands most of it...they just don't seem to care. The only one that people seem to be unaware of is the fairly precise location tracking that happens.

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

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Post by nomel »

krior wrote: post #98

Can someone from the US explain what race even means in this context and how it is determined?

All levels of the US education system teach (now at least) that race is a social construct. There's no concept of population-genetics taught, until much later, in hard science classes.

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

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Post by ButlerianJihad »

krior wrote: post #98

Can someone from the US explain what race even means in this context and how it is determined?

There are various risk factors, and some lab tests, that differ among racial groups.

For example, my labs include at least two that have different specified thresholds for "African-American" or "non-AA" patients.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle_cell_disease#United_Sta...

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