The states:
Health care exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island shared users’ sensitive health data with companies like Google and LinkedIn.
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Here's the article about the class action lawsuit - https://themarkup.org/impact/2025/05/02/after-markup-investigation-linkedin-and-google-face-lawsuit-alleging-improper-access-to-health-data
For those affected specifically by Covered California, although I wouldn’t be surprised to see suits for other states pop up
A proposed class action, the lawsuit seeks to represent everyone who had information transmitted to the tech companies by Covered California
While I do think CoveredCA needs a healthy (pun intended) fine, tech companies need need a serious grilling for taking this info. Not just the cost of business crap that's handed out for getting caught.
More importantly, WE need resources to notify, find and curate or revoke data about us! Start putting that in settlement clauses; I don't care about my $3.20 gift card left over and split from a class action win.
Can these types of post include countries in the title? This USA defaultism makes the experience worse for everyone else with no benefit whatsoever
This needs to end. I hope the lawsuit brings us a step closer to it.
And at this point, nobody can claim ignorance or incompetence. Online portals that deal with sensitive data, you need to code them properly.
Not that I think there wasn't a profitable motive behind it.
Would the federal Health and Human Services Department even care? Do they even care about HIPAA now?
And big tech selling their analyses to health insurance crooks for outrageous amounts of money so that the crooks can optimise their profits by asking for higher prices for health issues that occur more frequently (and integrate the cost of these analyses into the insurance pricing as well lol). All of this can still be done without violating privacy and anonymity but still fuck people over majorly.
You're surprised?
Fair assessment. But that doesn't mean we should dismiss it when it comes to light. Shout about it, don't dismiss it.
No. But glad there's a class action lawsuit coming. You'd prefer not to see an article about it?