HEALTH CARE
Privacy
threat found in ObamaCare website
By Peter Doocy
Published October 16, 2013
FoxNews.com
To
enroll in a new ObamaCare health insurance plan on the federal marketplace,
most consumers must first provide private personal information.
But
buried in that website's blueprint (known as "source code") lies an
alarming warning first unearthed by the Weekly Standard.
"You
have no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding any communication or data
transiting or stored on this information system," reads the disclaimer,
which does not appear on the site's visible "Terms and Conditions"
page.
The
disclaimer continues: "At any time, and for any lawful Government purpose,
the government may monitor, intercept, and search and seize any communication
or data transiting or stored on this information system."
Now
security experts are worried this paragraph beneath the surface at
HealthCare.gov may represent an ominous sign -- that the U.S. government is
ill-equipped to handle identity thieves.
"This
sounds as they're saying ... we're not guaranteeing we can protect anything you
give us at all," security expert Morgan Wright told Fox News on Wednesday.
Wright
added, "You've just told everybody where the gold is and you've left it
unsecured. So it will come as no shock that this will be stolen.
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