Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You — And It Could Raise Your Rates

Discussion in 'privacy general' started by hawki, Jul 17, 2018.

  1. hawki

    hawki Registered Member

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    "Without any public scrutiny, insurers and data brokers are predicting your health costs based on data about things like race, marital status, how much TV you watch, whether you pay your bills on time or even buy plus-size clothing...

    With little public scrutiny, the health insurance industry has joined forces with data brokers to vacuum up personal details about hundreds of millions of Americans, including, odds are, many readers of this story. The companies are tracking your race, education level, TV habits, marital status, net worth. They’re collecting what you post on social media, whether you’re behind on your bills, what you order online. Then they feed this information into complicated computer algorithms that spit out predictions about how much your health care could cost them..."

    https://www.propublica.org/article/...tails-about-you-and-it-could-raise-your-rates
     
  2. mirimir

    mirimir Registered Member

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    Well, as I always say, compartmentalize. If you don't want XYZ to be part of your profile, compartmentalize.
     
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