I thought Europe was more careful about things like this. This is pretty bad, these people are vulnerable and they're just mining they're data for profit.

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thibaut_barrere 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It is, and that is why the company took action:

> After being confronted with this research, Stichting 113 temporarily suspended all measurement and analysis tools on its website.

It does not mean that this cannot happen, but the regulatory framework helps stop it.

	▲	ryandrake an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I guess it didn't help enough to stop them from doing it in the first place--it just helped them stop once they were caught. Sure, it's a step up from other places where there is literally no consequence for this kind of sharing.

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gowld an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They are not mining the data profit; they are mining the data for managing their website.

	▲	philipwhiuk 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Google is mining the data for profit and bartering with websites like this to get it.

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Ylpertnodi an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Europe is more careful. But people will break the law.

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0cf8612b2e1e 25 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

This is a rare circumstance where I would actually assume incompetence vs malice. (Unlike big tech, which has weaponized good will)

I would hope that anyone medical adjacent would be more deliberate in building a service, but I can easily imagine following the same ad-infested path as everyone else. “Start with this Google/Facebook/Microsoft/Draft Kings starter template that bundles leftpad so you can save time for the hard work”

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spiderfarmer an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

People make mistakes.

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haunter an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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	▲	rzwitserloot an hour ago \| parent [-]
		In this context, a social construct. In terms much more popular a century ago, a 'nation': A people who have some similarities in how they approach, in this case, a combination of 'privacy aspects in regards to business' and 'to what extent America can be trusted to be of similar social construct and thus likely to end up between company policy and legal principles at the same or a similar conclusion'. Or to make it even simpler: The EU's written and unwritten rules, along with countries that closely track such things, such as Norway, Switserland, Iceland, etc.