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Blue Shield of California shared the private health data of millions with Google for years
The health insurance giant is notifying at least 4.7 million patients of the security lapse.
Blue Shield said the collected data also included insurance plan names, types and group numbers, along with personal information such as patients’ city, zip code, gender and family size. Online trackers are small snippets of code, often provided by tech giants, designed to collect information about a customers’ browsing activity by being embedded in mobile apps and websites. Last year, U.S. health insurance giant Kaiser notified more than 13 million people that it had been sharing patients’ data with advertisers including Google, Microsoft and X, after embedding tracking code on its website.
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