HealthCare.gov sends out users' personal info to ad companies

  • 22 January 2015
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Posted on 22 January 2015. HealthCare.gov, the health insurance exchange website operated by the US government, is sending out personal health information about its users to at least 14 (and likely more) third-party websites belonging to private advertising companies.

The sent information apparently includes the users' age, income level, ZIP code, parental status, pregnancy status and whether they are a smoker. And while no name is associated with it, the computer's IP address can occasionally be included in the sent information, de facto allowing the companies to associate it to a person....EEF's staff technologist Cooper Quintin independently evaluated these claims, and came to the same conclusion.

He discovered that the following third-party domains are receiving the data in question: 
http://www.net-security.org/images/articles/clickdomains-22012015.jpg Full Article

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