>For example: Google "lump in the testicles" and browse medical sites. Then wait one week and try to get mortgage or insurance.
>For example: Google "lump in the testicles" and browse medical sites. Then wait one week and try to get mortgage or insurance.
"Life insurers are testing an intensely personal new use for the vast dossiers of data being amassed about Americans: predicting people's longevity.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870464860457562...
It was just a pilot test, but that was three years ago, so who knows where is now.
There is a huge difference between publicly stating for the whole world to see that you have cancer by posting it to Facebook and searching google and browsing webmd and an insurer somehow surfacing that search and browsing intent and then acting on it. You backed up nothing.