Comment on HealthCare.gov Sends Personal Data to Dozens of Tracking WebsitesparentComments−Alupis11yIt would be interesting to hear a perspective from some of the HNers that actually worked on the re-build of HealthCare.gov−argc11yI agree. On the surface, this looks ridiculous and I am very surprised. Hopefully there is a good explanation... but pregnancy status as a query parameter? I don't understand what that could be other than data mining.−glass-11yAnd knowing that someone is pregnant is extremely valuable to advertisers[0][0] http://mashable.com/2014/04/26/big-data-pregnancy/
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It would be interesting to hear a perspective from some of the HNers that actually worked on the re-build of HealthCare.gov
I agree. On the surface, this looks ridiculous and I am very surprised. Hopefully there is a good explanation... but pregnancy status as a query parameter? I don't understand what that could be other than data mining.
And knowing that someone is pregnant is extremely valuable to advertisers[0]
[0] http://mashable.com/2014/04/26/big-data-pregnancy/