Looking Up Symptoms Online? These Companies Are Tracking You

Posted by samzenpus on Monday February 23, 2015 @09:10AM from the that's-sick dept.

merbs writes When we feel sick, fear disease, or have questions about our health, we turn first to the internet. According to the Pew Internet Project, 72 percent of US internet users look up health-related information online. But an astonishing number of the pages we visit to learn about private health concerns—confidentially, we assume—are tracking our queries, sending the sensitive data to third party corporations, even shipping the information directly to the same brokers who monitor our credit scores.

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Sensational headline by mi · 2015-02-23 09:24 · Score: 4, Insightful

Companies are tracking you. Period. Whatever you do, on whatever site. That site and its partners are tracking you — as much as you can be identified, that is. And before you blame "KKKorporations", ask yourself, why a page like this has elements from AddThis and Google Analytics...
AdBlock to the rescue. Sort of.

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