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>For example: Google "lump in the testicles" and browse medical sites. Then wait one week and try to get mortgage or insurance. I'm calling bullshit on this on
by jbigelow76 13y ago
>For example: Google "lump in the testicles" and browse medical sites. Then wait one week and try to get mortgage or insurance.
I'm calling bullshit on this one unless you can provide a concrete example.
- millstone 13y agoCourtesy of http://donttrack.us http://donttrack.us: "Life insurers are testing an intensely personal new use for the vast dossiers of data being amassed about Americans: predicting people's longevity.” http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704648604575620750998072986.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870464860457562... It was just a pilot test, but that was three years ago, so who knows where is now.
- hannibal5 13y agohttp://verdict.justia.com/2012/01/03/will-insurers-begin-to-use-social-media-postings-to-calculate-premiums http://verdict.justia.com/2012/01/03/will-insurers-begin-to-...
- jbigelow76 13y agoThis link has nothing to do with your original scenario of googling for "testicular cancer" and subsequently getting denied for insurance or a mortgage. It's about social media. Social media != anonymized search data. There is a huge difference between publicly stating for the whole world to see that you have cancer by posting it to Facebook and searching google and browsing webmd and an insurer somehow surfacing that search and browsing intent and then acting on it. You backed up nothing.