{"id":22234,"date":"2015-01-21T07:36:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T12:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22234"},"modified":"2015-01-21T07:36:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T12:36:48","slug":"%e2%80%9cdozens%e2%80%9d-of-e-commerce-vendors-gathering-data-from-healthcare-gov-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22234\/%e2%80%9cdozens%e2%80%9d-of-e-commerce-vendors-gathering-data-from-healthcare-gov-users\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDozens\u201d of E-Commerce Vendors Gathering Data from Healthcare.gov Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHave you been researching a chronic illness like coronary artery blockage? Do you shop online for smoking-cessation aids? Are you investigating genetic markers for a certain type of breast cancer? Are you seeking help for financial problems, or for an addiction?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those are just some of the information items potentially being collected on Healthcare.gov \u2013 the federal government\u2019s ObamaCare website used by millions of Americans to shop for health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2015\/01\/20\/new_privacy_concerns_over_obamacare_web_site_125320.html \" target=\"_blank\">report by the Associated Press<\/a> confirmed that \u201cdozens\u201d of third party vendors like Google, Twitter and Facebook are gleaning personal data points from Healthcare.gov users. These can be sold to internet advertisers to market products directly to consumers who\u2019ve searched for similar items.<\/p>\n<p>The hidden presence of these websites drew concern from two cyber security experts interviewed by the AP, in part because tracking firms can piece together a user\u2019s identity through IP addresses and patterns of behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time there was concern that hackers would find a way to access a person\u2019s health and financial records through a weakness in Healthcare.gov. As it turns out, all they need to do is pose as an e-commerce vendor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHave you been researching a chronic illness like coronary artery blockage? Do you shop online for smoking-cessation aids? Are you investigating genetic markers for a certain type of breast cancer? Are you seeking help for financial problems, or for an addiction?\u201d Those are just some of the information items potentially being collected on Healthcare.gov \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4645,3308,4340,35,801],"class_list":["post-22234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cyber-security","tag-health","tag-healthcare-gov","tag-obamacare","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22234"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22239,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22234\/revisions\/22239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}