{"id":22284,"date":"2015-01-28T12:14:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T17:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22284"},"modified":"2015-01-28T12:14:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T17:14:55","slug":"uproar-over-privacy-concerns-spurs-white-house-to-change-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22284\/uproar-over-privacy-concerns-spurs-white-house-to-change-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Uproar Over Privacy Concerns Spurs White House to Change Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the Associated Press revealed that <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22234\/%E2%80%9Cdozens%E2%80%9D-of-e-commerce-vendors-gathering-data-from-healthcare-gov-users\/ \" target=\"_blank\">the Obama administration is allowing e-commerce companies to collect private information<\/a> from people using Healthcare.gov \u2013 the government website connecting citizens in 34 states to ObamaCare-compliant insurance plans.<\/p>\n<p>The data points retrieved include ZIP code, age, income, pregnancy status and tobacco use.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the website has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/01\/23\/obamacare-privacy_n_6534478.html \" target=\"_blank\">reduced the amount of information<\/a> it is sending, but privacy advocates say more needs to be done.<\/p>\n<p>A tech expert with the Electronic Frontier Foundation says the Obama administration\u2019s website should not allow third-party tracking services to capture the information received from visitors who enable the \u201cdo not track\u201d feature on their browsers.<\/p>\n<p>Better yet, the government should get out of the business of sharing sensitive information it mandates citizens to divulge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the Associated Press revealed that the Obama administration is allowing e-commerce companies to collect private information from people using Healthcare.gov \u2013 the government website connecting citizens in 34 states to ObamaCare-compliant insurance plans. The data points retrieved include ZIP code, age, income, pregnancy status and tobacco use. Now, the website has\u00a0reduced the amount [&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":[4340,35,801],"class_list":["post-22284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-healthcare-gov","tag-obamacare","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22284","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=22284"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22294,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22284\/revisions\/22294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}