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One day after an investigation from Calmatters and The Markup, LinkedIn and Google were affected by the proposed Lawsui for class actiont In claiming that they have incorrectly received confidential data from trackers on the California Health Insurance Website.
California Congressman, citing the investigation, then called on the Federal Department of Health and Human Services to investigate sharing data from LinkedIn exchange.
In articlePosted this week, Calmatters and The Markup revealed how the trackers on the website, Coverca.com, send information to LinkedIn visitors through an instrument called Tag Insight. As visitors completed the site forms, the trackers sent information about LinkedIn about them, including whether they were pregnant, blind, transgender or experienced domestic violence. Tracking people have also monitored information about the search for visitors for medical suppliers and how often these visitors to use medical prescription drugs.
The government formation that controls the stock exchange, covered California, has since removed the trackers. A spokesman said they were used as part of an advertising campaign, which began in February 2024.
The trial filed in the North California County cites Calmatters forensic tests and marking, as well as the applicant’s studies to claim that LinkedIn and Google have received health data from web trackers on scifca.com without the knowledge or consent of users. The plaintiff in the case is an anonymous woman from California, who claims to have completed information about California covered around June last year and sent this information to LinkedIn and Google.
The proposed class action, the case seeks to present everyone who had information transmitted to technology companies from covered California. The company that represents her, Bursor and Fisher, has Specialty in classroom costumesincluding in the privacy of data and Touts get $ 100 million Authorization by Google for estimated privacy violations in 2022
“LinkedIn and Google deliberately captured sensitive and confidential communications between the covered California and its customers,” the costume said to represent other similar ones. “LinkedIn and Google were unable to agree on these intercepts.”
“LinkedIn and Google have failed to obtain consent.”
A proposed classroom case filed in the Federal Court for sharing sensitive data from the California Health Insurance Exchange.
The claim claims that tracking is applied to California and federal laws, including California Law on Privacy, which requires consent before “communications” are sent to third countries. The companies have committed similar violations under the Federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act, according to the case.
Google did not reply immediately to comment requests.
A LinkedIn spokesman referred to the company’s previous statement, stating that his policies “explicitly prohibit customers from installing a web pages insight marker that collect or contain sensitive data, including health -related services.”
Millions of people in the state have received coverage through covered California, created under the Law on Accessible Care Act, as a way of Californians quickly and easily shop insurance and compare their plans. In a statement Posted online after posting From the history of marking and tranquility of MarkUp and Calfatters, he said “reviews the nature and extent of sensitive user data and information, which is inadvertently shared with LinkedIn.”
Since revealed tracking, history has also caught the attention of legislators. Reporter Kevin Kili, who called on data sharing “Incredibly disturbing,” Send a Letter to the Ministry of Health and Human Services A request to investigate whether tracking may have violated the laws of confidentiality such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Kili is a Republican whose area of California extends from the suburban sacrament to the Valley of Death.
Among other questions, the letter asks the agency to determine how many people have been affected by tracking and how “something like this (can) be prevented in the future.”
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