15 Evil Internet Privacy Scandals of All Time

Health Net’s Unhealthy Data Expose

Private details of around 2 million patients collected and stored in a hard drive in an unencrypted format were reported missing putting at risk their names, addresses, Social Security numbers, health and financial data. The second big data breach in two years for Health Net. A nationwide class action suit was filed against IBM, a contractor for the hospital’s datacenter was sued and HealthNet

Behavior Targeting now Targeted

A service creates behavioral profiles based on anonymous data of how computer users surf the web and then serve up targeted ads based on these profiles. This behavioral targeting is a new area of concern for privacy advocates. A much easier and meaner way of advertising by online advertisers. Chitika an online advertising firm was the first to pay behavioral profiling settlement to FTC for deceptive opt-out practices in 2011. Chitika said it mistakenly programmed the opt-out setting for 10 days, instead of the intended 10 years.