Thursday, October 17, 2013

Privacy threat found in ObamaCare website

HEALTH CARE

Privacy threat found in ObamaCare website

Published October 16, 2013
FoxNews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/16/obamacare-website-poses-privacy-threat/?intcmp=latestnews#
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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