Privacy Implications of Health Information Seeking on the Web · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1404.1951/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTPrivacy Implications of Health Information Seeking on the Web — mentioned by notahackerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9441422urn:hackerpapers:mention:1404.1951:9441422Sun, 26 Apr 2015 11:42:30 GMT<p>The original source paper is at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.1951.pdf Much as this sort of thing makes me glad I don&#x27;t need to purchase private health insurance, the article would be a lot more helpful if it distinguished more clearly between what is and isn&#x27;t legal use of the data as well as between the Experians and Google Analytics of this world. That said, the original source paper probably if any thing plays down the potential concerns, contending, for example that a URI like http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21722252 contains no symptom-specific information when any sufficiently motivated…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1404.1951/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CY