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Federal web sites leak records of who seeks information on AIDS treatment

 Government, Privacy  Add comments
Nov 082014
 

This article points out that federal web sites intended to provide health information to AIDS patients and others had for years left traffic ‘in the clear’, and used cookies which others could also track. What this meant was that a patterns of use could be pretty easily tracked on the outside, allowing others to deduce personal issues of users.

 Posted by Purtilo at 8:57 am on November 8, 2014

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