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Covered California, the state’s health insurance marketplace, leaked deeply sensitive health information and pregnancy status, domestic abuse disclosures, and p
by kordlessagain 1y ago
Covered California, the state’s health insurance marketplace, leaked deeply sensitive health information and pregnancy status, domestic abuse disclosures, and prescription drug use to LinkedIn via embedded ad trackers.
It’s a pattern we’ve seen across government and private sectors: infrastructure designed for care is being exploited for behavioral targeting through advertising motions. The public doesn’t expect their health decisions to be fed into social ad networks, but the platforms already assume ownership of that data trail.
And of course, it’s all connected. The same companies monetizing behavioral profiling at scale are now running the most powerful generative AI systems. Microsoft, which owns LinkedIn, is also the key infrastructure partner of OpenAI. Meta's ad tools were present on these health sites too. Google’s trackers are everywhere else.
When you strip away the techno-mystique, what’s driving the AI and data arms race isn’t wisdom. It’s ego, power consolidation, and a pathological fear of being second.
And Sam Altman? He’s not stupid. But brilliance without wisdom is just charisma in a predator suit. Why do you think all these services tie directly into AI?
- jajko 1y ago[flagged]
- FredPret 1y agoIt's the idea that class warfare will get us anywhere good that's brutally naive at this point.
- yapyap 1y agoI think class warfare will get the working class further than whatever is being done at the moment honestly.
- FredPret 1y ago...why? How? Have you seen any history at all? This has never worked. Cohesive, trusting societies get much further than ones that are at war with themselves. Even so, cohesion and trust are nice-to-haves. Tech progress and GDP growth has meant that the world's poor live better lives, decade after decade, for many centuries now.
- ithrablip 1y ago[flagged]
- uoaei 1y agoCohesive trusting societies are borne out of the struggle to dethrone oligarchs and lords.
- apercu 1y agoI don’t think he working class started the war so if the working class stops the class war doesn’t end.
- FredPret 1y agoPeople advocating for their interests isn't warfare. I assure you there are virtually no rich people cackling, monocles and cigars in place, over the fate of the poor. When the working class unionizes or vote for more rights, this isn't warfare - as long as it's fair-minded and pragmatic rather than idealogical. The same goes for the rich. Regarding people with other backgrounds and interests as evil sociopaths / socialists is where the problem comes in.
- test098 1y ago> People advocating for their interests isn't warfare. When those interests come at the expense/lives of other people, it is [1] [2]. > I assure you there are virtually no rich people cackling, monocles and cigars in place, over the fate of the poor. Correct, their theatrics are even dumber than that [3]. --- [1] "House Republicans Push Forward Plan to Cut Taxes, Medicaid and Food Aid" - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/us/politics/congress-tax-medicaid.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/us/politics/congress-tax-... [2] "Sanders on GOP Medicaid cuts: ‘Thousands and thousands of low-income and working people will die’" - https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5302085-bernie-sanders-republican-medicaid-cuts/ https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5302085-bernie-sanders-r... [3] "Musk waves a chainsaw and charms conservatives talking up Trump’s cost-cutting efforts" - https://apnews.com/article/musk-chainsaw-trump-doge-6568e9e0cfc42ad6cdcfd58a409eb312 https://apnews.com/article/musk-chainsaw-trump-doge-6568e9e0...
- alganet 1y agoWarfare is dumb. The class struggle is a perspective. It points to how blind rich people are to social issues, and how blind the poor are to economic issues. These two need the struggle, gently. Without it, there is either bloody revolution or cruel autocracy. That's as simple as it gets. Many people get it wrong.
- apercu 1y agoI assure you that poor people are not universally blind to economic issues. lol.
- alganet 1y agoThat's the least important part of my statement. There is a struggle between those who have power and those who don't. This displacement creates blind spots, and also vantage points.
- lawlessone 1y agopoor people can't afford to be blind to economic issues. Rich people have more leeway there.
- alganet 1y agoDo you consider yourself blind to economic issues? Rich or poor? Straight question.
- johnisgood 1y agoI am poor, and if I am blind to economic issues, I will be worse off. I need to be frugal. I need to keep track of the things I am paying. I need to ask myself before each purchase: do I really need it? And so forth... Sure, many poor people might still gamble away their money, or buy stuff they cannot afford, but humans are being humans.
- ithrablip 1y ago[flagged]
- Loudergood 1y agoClass warfare is already happening from the top down.
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- timewizard 1y agoI love it when enforcing laws and fairness is perceived as "class warfare."
- pseudocomposer 1y agoWhat do you define as “class warfare?” Do you agree that the current status-quo hyper-consolidation of wealth our economy has fostered since act least 1972 is already an ongoing type of class warfare? And finally, why do you think class warfare can’t get us anywhere?
- lo_zamoyski 1y agoWhat we call "power" is not a property of a person, but a function of networks of relationships. A king is only "powerful" insofar as his authority is recognized. The moment his perceived authority is lost, the moment no one or few recognize it, is the moment he no longer has "power". In other words, it only works if there is enough social support for it. It requires our complicity. Most people with ASPD (what you call sociopathy) are not able to build these sorts of networks. They're impulsive. They are over-represented among the homeless. They are poor at planning or foreseeing the consequences of their actions. These are not exactly conducive to building these social networks. A sociopath is more the street thug or the gangbanger and less the CEO of a corporation.
- quantified 1y agoWould we be surprised to learn of 10x this level of leakage to Facebook? Based on the social tracking I've casually observed via browser tools when signing up to a variety of services, I'd be surprised if it's not. The weird thing here is that it's LinkedIn getting the data, not that it's being sent.
- shaky-carrousel 1y ago[flagged]
- jeron 1y ago>And Sam Altman? He’s not stupid. But brilliance without wisdom is just charisma in a predator suit. Why do you think all these services tie directly into AI? I don't think AI would come up with this line
- martinsnow 1y ago[flagged]
- ToValueFunfetti 1y agoFunnily enough, that's the line that made me suspicious it was AI. I've seen that structure and that sort of metaphor many times from ChatGPT. And it's not like GPT shies away from criticizing Altman (https://chatgpt.com/share/682623aa-eac0-8000-9fa3-d039580a013a https://chatgpt.com/share/682623aa-eac0-8000-9fa3-d039580a01...). The rest of the comment doesn't set off any alarm bells for me.
- shaky-carrousel 1y agoSame, I've read enough ChatGPT prose to recognize it. The rest of the comment has also small cues that point to AI.
- perihelions 1y agoI think publicly leveling accusations against other commenters downgrades the quality of the conversation—and it's against the forum rules too. You can email the mods if it's something that can be moderated, but please keep it private! It makes things worse if this kind of accusation happens to be wrong. (Also makes things worse if it's right). Often it's singling out an actual, real person for unpleasant scrutiny they didn't expect or want. "Remember the human."
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- daveatwork 1y ago[dead]