Data included the types of doctors you were seeking, prescription medications you might be taking – and personal gender information too: How the state sent Californians’ personal health data to LinkedIn

This is, per the story, the fault of Covered California – which is the party that installed trackers on their own website and did so in violation of LinkedIn’s guidelines. They had also installed trackers from Meta and other online businesses.

Everything you submit anywhere online may as well be publicly published. That is how invasive Internet spying has become.

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