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How the Obamacare website healthcare.gov leaks private data

HealthCare.gov, the US federal health insurance exchange website, is inadvertently sending users personal health information to 14 separate third party websites. The site, a central component of The Affordable Care Act (often referred to as Obamacare) leaks data via referer headers. The data being sent to third-party websites includes zip code, age, income, and whether or not youre pregnant or a smoker. Some of the sites are websites belonging to advertising companies who specialise in user profiling.”]

Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/01/23/how-the-obamacare-website-healthcare-gov-leaks-private-data/

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