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US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

TechCrunch · Zack Whittaker · last updated
Virginia and Washington D.C. paused the data collection and sharing, after Bloomberg’s investigation found their health insurance marketplaces were sharing users’ information with advertisers.

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