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The headline seems a bit alarmist to me. Is Facebook itself not essentially also an ad targeting firm with millions of profiles?
by taylorlb 15y ago
The headline seems a bit alarmist to me. Is Facebook itself not essentially also an ad targeting firm with millions of profiles?
- bproper 15y agoFacebook sells ads against anonymous user demographics. Specific Media now owns the actual profiles, with everything from sexual orientation to medical history they may contain.
- KeyBoardG 15y agoWho puts their medical history on Myspace?
- bproper 15y agoI'm sure lots of people shared details of illness, pregnancy, drug abuse and other personal info that would fall under the rubric of medical data.
- sixtofour 15y agoInteresting question: if someone posts medical data privately, like private messages between individuals, then does the owning or acquiring firm have any HIPPA responsibility? Maybe not, merely for owning it. But what if the owning or acquiring entity decides to sell that data to medical insurance companies, or private investigators. Are there then HIPPA complications? Because now the data is interesting because it has bearing on medical or insurance decisions.