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Tuesday, 02/24/2015 5:27:51 PM

Tuesday, February 24, 2015 5:27:51 PM

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Searching 'Syphilis' Online? Go To The Library.

by Karl Denninger
2015-02-24 06:15

This is outrageous, and details exactly how far down the rabbit hole we've gone -- and how far you have let it go.

That means when you search for “cold sores,” for instance, and click the highly ranked “Cold Sores Topic Overview WebMD” link, the website is passing your request for information about the disease along to one or more (and often many, many more) other corporations.
http://tinyurl.com/lzk2usv

If you think it's just being used for advertising, you're dead wrong.

Among the places your search string, the IP address you're coming from, and quite-possibly (in fact, likely if you use social media) a tracking ID that is probably able to uniquely identify you are sent include data brokers -- such as Experian.

Yes, the same Experian that handles credit reporting.


What's even worse is that non-profit government entities like the CDC are linking this sort of information as well!

I took a quick look around WebMD. I didn't find a direct link back to Experian, but I did find a whole host of analytic and advertising callbacks -- including some that have no direct home page and thus I cannot determine exactly what they claim to be doing with the information sent to them. I suspect that a bit more digging would find the nastygram.

If you think this is isn't a problem you're not very bright. Once this data is sent out it never goes away, and since it belongs to the site that acquires it they're free to sell it -- after all, you intentionally and willfully gave it up!

Welcome to the United States of Scamerica.

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Dan

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