Did You Know You Had Diabetes? It’s All Over the Internet

By iftttpYoHns6
Thursday, September 11th, 2014
Did You Know You Had Diabetes? It’s All Over the Internet
Dan Abate doesn’t have diabetes nor is he aware of any obvious link to the disease. Try telling that to data miners. The 42-year-old information technology worker’s name recently showed up in a database of millions of people with “diabetes interest” sold by Acxiom Corp.

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