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2 relevant attributes as it turns out.
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
#132The actual "sharing" was using the Meta pixel and TikTok's equivalent, presumably so the healthcare exchanges could do retargeting or similarity-based marketing to get people to sign up for health care coverage. Which, narrowly, seems like a reasonable thing to do. But of course using the pixel automatically "shares" the data with Meta/ByteDance/whoever, and they get to use it for whatever nefarious purpose they want…
The state healthcare exchanges doing any kind of targeting and/or marketing, even to 'get people' to sign up for subsidized healthcare, could also be conceived of as unreasonable. I could be wrong, but I wouldn't think their mandate under the ACA contemplates any targeting or marketing of themselves whatsoever—even if it's ostensibly to increase enrollment. That it feels like there's an implicit assumption that they…
> could also be conceived of as unreasonable
It could also be conceived of as perfectly reasonable. One of the many (some very flawed) purposes of the ACA was to get more people insured, advertising that state-subsidized insurance is available for you is absolutely in that wheelhouse.
If retargeting is the problem, it should be banned across the board, both for public and private ad campaigns.
Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Citizens" United (which allows unlimited corporate political donations by classifying them as "speech", for those out of the loop) has fundamentally changed the core incentive structures of the modern political landscape. To compare a pre-CU world to a post-CU world when it comes to matters at the intersection of corporate interests and government regulatory / legislative power is comparing apples to oranges. We nee…
> We need to overturn CU Or we could stop looking at SCOTUS to fix legislation and ask the branch of government who's job it is to fix legislation, Congress.
That would be nice in principle, yes, but in a CU world, that's asking the fox to vote to lock itself out of the hen house.
In practice most of the foxes that promise to do so never actually will.
What's your proposal to solve this?
Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
#134I used a state (Colorado) healthcare marketplace website when I was going to take a break between jobs for a couple of months, and I feel very violated by the whole process. I entered a bunch of information to the website, knowing that the data could be expected to be shared for quotes, but I got no quote. The information didn't just flow between systems, it was just sent directly to a bunch of individuals. Instead o…
Welcome to the reality of the US federal government not even trying to do something like GDPR.
Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
#135The actual "sharing" was using the Meta pixel and TikTok's equivalent, presumably so the healthcare exchanges could do retargeting or similarity-based marketing to get people to sign up for health care coverage. Which, narrowly, seems like a reasonable thing to do. But of course using the pixel automatically "shares" the data with Meta/ByteDance/whoever, and they get to use it for whatever nefarious purpose they want…
Nefarious indeed. Once they know who you are, they match you against insurance industry databases and can infer many health conditions and other stuff.
If you’re timely with prenatal care, marketers can predict a woman’s delivery data within a week with high confidence.
Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
#136I used a state (Colorado) healthcare marketplace website when I was going to take a break between jobs for a couple of months, and I feel very violated by the whole process. I entered a bunch of information to the website, knowing that the data could be expected to be shared for quotes, but I got no quote. The information didn't just flow between systems, it was just sent directly to a bunch of individuals. Instead o…
Welcome to the reality of the US federal government not even trying to do something like GDPR.
The dysfunction is intentional. Baby steps to rollback ACA. Every small inconvenience pushes voters closer to their side.
Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
Welcome to the reality of the US federal government not even trying to do something like GDPR.
The dysfunction is intentional. Baby steps to rollback ACA. Every small inconvenience pushes voters closer to their side.
So many things are intentionally broken. All of the complaints about illegal immigrants working on our farms, and yet no mention that we do have a migratory laborer visa - it's just the quota is way too low.
Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The relevant facts are that the website owner voluntarily put the tracking code... The civil discussion should now be about the punishment for that. Regulation is required for handling people's data
Sounds like that will work similar to incarcerating drug users instead of the drug makers and distribution network?
In your analogy I would argue the website owners are analogous to the distribution network and Meta/Tiktok are analogous to the manufacturers.
But I also don’t think it’s perfect because usually drug users know they are buying drugs whereas with tracking pixels it’s being done secretly.
Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a tracking pixel. They fool you into sending it.
That's like saying that Ted Kaczynski was innocent, because he didn't force anyone to open the packages.
The government wants these packages sent out to support its domestic surveillance initiative. It helps when 99% are unaware they exist.
Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
#140The 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.
Ah yes. The casual misanthropy explanation.
Isn't there supposed to be a vast and powerful federal government with incredible investigatory and arrest powers? The one that people are taught to rely on since they stand no chance against a trillion dollar monopoly?