Category: Online Safety and Digital Privacy Guides
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This is how you stop data trackers from sucking up your health data
The Markup and CalMatters found multiple ways consumers can block the trackers quietly sending your data to tech companies, including those used on state-run health exchange websites. By: Tomas Apodaca and Colin Lecher — Originally published on The Markup. In April, The Markup and CalMatters found that Covered California, the state of California’s healthcare exchange,…
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“I Have Nothing to Hide” isn’t a Good Reason to Give Up Your Rights
If you think about it, the technology you use every day has seen things that you wouldn’t want others to know about. Yes, you. Everyone. You don’t want your neighbors to have your bank account and routing numbers and medication history, do you? Do you leave your car doors unlocked with your wallet, keys on…