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Health insurance lead sites sell personal data within seconds of form submission (www.helpnetsecurity.com)

submitted 3 days ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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Lead generation websites that offer health insurance quotes collect sensitive personal data and sell it to multiple buyers within seconds of a user clicking submit. A study by researchers at UC Davis, Stanford University, and Maastricht University mapped this process across 105 health insurance lead generation sites and monitored what happened to the data over 60 days. The researchers created 210 synthetic user profiles, each with a unique phone number and email address, and submitted … More → The post Health insurance lead sites sell personal data within seconds of form submission appeared first on Help Net Security.

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[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago

I wonder what would happen if someone just flooded them with millions of nonsense information/fake names and such. who's auto buying stuff?