I Think If People Knew About This There Would Be Very Considerable Outrage.

This appeared a few days ago.UK regulator to assess claims that UK health websites shared users ’ sensitive data with third partiesAn investigation by the Financial Times found popular sites disclosed personal information to third party companies. By Tammy LovellNovember 18, 2019 11:28 AMUK data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), is assessing a Financial Times (FT) investigation which claimed UK health websites share people ’s sensitive data with third party companies.The FT study, which used open-source tools to analyse 100 health websites, found 79% dropped cookies allowing third-parties to track individuals around the internet, without the consent legally required in the UK.According to the report, sites such as W ebMD, Healthline, Babycentre and Bupa, shared medical symptoms, menstrual and fertility information, diagnoses and drug names, with companies, including Google, Amazon, Facebook and Oracle.Simon McDougall, the ICO’s executive director... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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