Some states shared private health information with Big Tech
Marketplace Tech
American Public Media
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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An investigation from Tomas Apodaca, at CalMatters and The Markup, found several states were accidentally sharing private health information with tech companies. The tech companies receiving the information never even wanted it. Marketplace’s Nova Safo spoke with Apodaca to learn more about the accidental leak.
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| 1:24.5 | By law, your health information is private, but apparently not on some state-run websites that help people sign up for Affordable Care Act coverage. |
| 1:28.3 | According to investigations by the online news sites, The Markup and Cal Matters, |
| 1:33.2 | some state health insurance exchanges sent sensitive patient information to social media |
| 1:38.4 | companies, apparently by mistake. |
| 1:41.2 | Thomas Apodaca from Cal Matters and the markup followed the digital breadcrumbs. |
| 1:46.6 | We found that California was leaking data to LinkedIn. After we published our findings on |
| 1:52.7 | that investigation, we decided to check the other 19 states and the Washington, D.C. that also |
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