Americans Clicked Ads to Get Free Cash. Their Health Insurance Changed Instead

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This is a clear example of why personal privacy is important for everybody—not just people who are high-profile or in certain fields of work.

These people ended up paying avoidable expenses due to voluntarily sharing information that they were not required to disclose, which was used to change their health-care plan without consent.

A lack of individual privacy can cost people real money. In this case, this resulted in unnecessary costs for essential medical care.

This is also an argument for ad blockers and torts. Facebook should be named in the class action suit if it's not already.

Torts are often the only way to get bad corporate actors to change their behavior.

It's also an argument for a "real" healthcare system not based on tricks and extortion, where people decide themselves not some random shady agents on behalf of them, where all these changes and expenses are trackable and tracked...

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