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Blue Shield of California shared the private health data of millions with Google for years

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Tea@programming.dev⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://news.blueshieldca.com/notice-of-data-breach

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  • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s a huge HIPAA violation. Can’t wait to see them get a slap on the wrist.

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    • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      In theory there would be large fines for every violation, of which there would be millions in this case

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      • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’ll be holding my breath.

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    • unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      There’s no PHI noted in the disclosure, so it is more likely that nothing happens. Boring dystopia.

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  • Tronn4@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    What are these supposed benefits they speak of? Allowing Google access for what end?

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    • stankmut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The analytics would be for the web development team to see which pages/features are used. Usually a product person uses that data for setting priorities on what gets worked on.

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      • Tronn4@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        SHUSH! 😄 We trying to burn this whole thing to the ground! Don’t come here with all that sense making talk! 🤣 /s

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      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s quite possible to self host this stuff.

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    • real_squids@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “Better” ads most likely, aka more personalized.

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      • stankmut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Allowing Google to run an ad campaign targeting their members wasn’t the benefit Blue Cross was talking about, that’s a side effect from them not turning off the data sharing option in the Google analytics settings.

        The analytics data is used for prioritizing development work. If a tool they have on the website relies on a library that isn’t compatible with a new version of React for instance, do they know how many people use it? Having analytics allows you to decide what’s worth spending the development time to maintain.

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    • chaospatterns@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Google Analytics gives you insights on what pages people visit, how long they spend, what kind of browsers and devices they use. That can give them data on what pages are important to customers and what screen sizes to support

      I’d rather they self host this data vs use Google Analytics, but there are benefits.

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      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It goes further than that. They can track how people interact with the page, order of buttons pressed, if or when they abort a workflow etc. You can go as deep down the rabbit hole of analytics and optimizations as you want.

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    • SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Dear Blue Shield members: what improvements in “”“services”“” from Blue Shield have you seen?

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      • Tronn4@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I ain’t seen shit. Premiums continually go up doe

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Jail those involved.

    I’m serious, jail them. This is again corpos making millions from us plebs and then they’ll get a fine that is a fraction of what they made and since they don’t pay taxes anyway, it’s still nothing.

    Jail them

    Find out who was in charge and either that person can show evidence that it was someone else without their knowledge or YOU JAIL THEM. Both at Google and at that torture company blue shield

    Jail them! Jail them now. Jail them for years, at least.

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  • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Paul Markovich is president and CEO of Blue Shield of California

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  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I saw an ad for Amazon telehealth a couple of weeks ago. I’m not digging the times we’re in. I also hope we don’t look back on this time with nostalgia.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      After the nuclear winter, we will look back on these times with nostalgia.

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      • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        “Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders”

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  • jared@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Fuck google, fuck blue shield!

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  • chaospatterns@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Here’s a good reason why you should run an ad blocker. Block the Google Analytics script from loading entirely.

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  • takeda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is why you always block ads and trackers. It never pays to worry about revenue of “poor sites”

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  • drool@lemmy.catsp.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Infuriating

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  • undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is why I’m such a cunt about blocking this stuff at the DNS and/or IP level. Google Analytics is essentially everywhere including IRS web pages with your Social Security number in the DOM.

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