The culprit are free third-party tools - such as Google Analytics - vacuum up data from health sites such as CDC, Mayo Clinic - and send it back to Google. This means that Google (and other companies) are getting sensitive health data that users have not explicitly permitted them to have.
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"WebMD is basically calling up everybody in town and telling them what you're looking at"
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The culprit are free third-party tools - such as Google Analytics - vacuum up data from health sites such as CDC, Mayo Clinic - and send it back to Google. This means that Google (and other companies) are getting sensitive health data that users have not explicitly permitted them to have.
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