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> Normally, such detailed health information would fall under > federal law and could not be disclosed or sold without > consent. But because these data
by gabemart 13y ago
> Normally, such detailed health information would fall under
> federal law and could not be disclosed or sold without
> consent. But because these data harvesters rely on indirect
> sources of information instead of medical records, they’re
> able to sidestep regulations put in place to protect the
> privacy of people’s health data.
What "indirect sources of information" could be used to identify thousands of rape victims?
- thesausageking 13y agoOne simple way is search data. If you have the data from a browser toolbar, you could mine for searches like "chances rape victim getting pregnant", "what is a rape kit", etc. and visits to certain pages of WebMD. This will be plenty accurate to use for targeting.