Virginia and Washington, D.C. paused the data collection and sharing, after Bloomberg's investigation found their health insurance marketplaces were sharing users' information with advertisers.
This is why people have been screaming about ‘its only your meta data we are sharing’ being a crock of horseshit for over a decade now, because meta data + data analysis = very high confidence of actual PII.
But we didn’t listen to those paranoid nerds, so now we live in hell.
Oh also literally every company or organization does this with all the data they can legally (or sometimes illegally) do this with.
They get a slap on the wrist, sometimes… data is very profitable.
Oh and Palantir has all of this kind of data, if that makes you feel better.
Old internet addage: If you’re getting something for free, you are the product.
Oh oh bonus:
The laws around this will never change unless basically everyone in the country with a net worth of ~$250 million or greater suddenly dies.
So aggregate data is fine but personally identifiable data is not. Cool… TIL.
Yes.
This is why people have been screaming about ‘its only your meta data we are sharing’ being a crock of horseshit for over a decade now, because meta data + data analysis = very high confidence of actual PII.
But we didn’t listen to those paranoid nerds, so now we live in hell.
Oh also literally every company or organization does this with all the data they can legally (or sometimes illegally) do this with.
They get a slap on the wrist, sometimes… data is very profitable.
Oh and Palantir has all of this kind of data, if that makes you feel better.
Old internet addage: If you’re getting something for free, you are the product.
Oh oh bonus:
The laws around this will never change unless basically everyone in the country with a net worth of ~$250 million or greater suddenly dies.