www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/22/health-apps-privacy/
We click through quickly and accept ‘agree’ without really contemplating the downstream potential trade-offs,” he said.
Those trade-offs could take a few forms, like our information landing in the hands of data sellers, employers, insurers, real estate agents, credit granters or law enforcement, privacy experts say.
Even small bits of information can be combined to infer big things about our lives, says Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney at the privacy organization Electronic Frontier Foundation. Those tidbits are called proxy data, and more than a decade ago, they helped Target figure out which of its customers were pregnant by looking at who bought unscented lotion.
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