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October 2025

Cyber Hygiene: It’s Time To Give Your Online Self A Shower

By For Everyone, Patient Advocacy Leaders, Privacy

Protecting your privacy online can feel overwhelming.  But we can help.As you browse online for health conditions or advice—looking up symptoms, medications, or clinics—ad trackers can quietly broadcast clues about what you’re reading and where you are billions of times a day across the web. Data brokers turn those clues into “audience lists” of people likely dealing with things like asthma, depression, or diabetes (sometimes even tagging caregivers or people in government/medical roles), even when platforms say they ban this. And once your data is pushed into that system, there’s no practical way to control who sees it, how it’s combined with other data, or who it’s sold to next.

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