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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6173061" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>I'm going based on the wording presented. "(2) obtains individually identifiable health information relating to an individual;" Without context, a lone word (like "catheter") does not comprise health information. Without metadata about who used the word, it is not individually identifiable. So, for example, if Google treats your sent and received e-mail equally, there's no way to tell if the interest is yours or someone else's. All they know is that the keyword appeared.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I believe this is incorrect. If someone knows better about Google's operations than I, please correct me.</p><p></p><p>Google advertisers do not use their own infrastructure. The advertiser submits an image and link to Google, along with information about when the ad should be shown. This is stored by Google, and the ad is served up from Google's servers. At the end of the month, the advertiser receives a report about impressions. Google does not send a query to the advertiser's computers. That would be slow, and would fail if that company's servers were down. If Google did do this, it would be anonymized ("I want an image for case #3"), which Google would then insert into the page for them. The advertiser does *not* get a direct link to you.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, for one thing, if you haven't deleted the e-mail, the word is still there! If you deleted it less than 30 days ago, it may still be sitting in your trash, still not completely deleted.</p><p></p><p>Beyond that, for search criteria and page visits, I think the standard way is through browser cookies. I don't know if Google sets browser cookies based on e-mail content. So, there's a file on your own machine that says, in essence, "Keyword X got mentioned". When it needs to, Google asks your machine what keywords got mentioned in this browser, and your browser tells Google. The transaction is still between you and Google. In the basic case, it doesn't connect that keyword to you, personally, only to the browser. </p><p></p><p>If you're using a Google account (which can be construed as attaching it to a PID), you can opt out of this. Beyond that, Google's privacy policy states they won't share sensitive information without permission (and I expect their lawyers have been over that with a fine-toothed comb). If you're not using a Google account, there's no PID to attach the cookie to anyway. You can use the "private mode" of your browser (all the major ones have them) to not keep information beyond the one session for either case.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6173061, member: 177"] I'm going based on the wording presented. "(2) obtains individually identifiable health information relating to an individual;" Without context, a lone word (like "catheter") does not comprise health information. Without metadata about who used the word, it is not individually identifiable. So, for example, if Google treats your sent and received e-mail equally, there's no way to tell if the interest is yours or someone else's. All they know is that the keyword appeared. I believe this is incorrect. If someone knows better about Google's operations than I, please correct me. Google advertisers do not use their own infrastructure. The advertiser submits an image and link to Google, along with information about when the ad should be shown. This is stored by Google, and the ad is served up from Google's servers. At the end of the month, the advertiser receives a report about impressions. Google does not send a query to the advertiser's computers. That would be slow, and would fail if that company's servers were down. If Google did do this, it would be anonymized ("I want an image for case #3"), which Google would then insert into the page for them. The advertiser does *not* get a direct link to you. Well, for one thing, if you haven't deleted the e-mail, the word is still there! If you deleted it less than 30 days ago, it may still be sitting in your trash, still not completely deleted. Beyond that, for search criteria and page visits, I think the standard way is through browser cookies. I don't know if Google sets browser cookies based on e-mail content. So, there's a file on your own machine that says, in essence, "Keyword X got mentioned". When it needs to, Google asks your machine what keywords got mentioned in this browser, and your browser tells Google. The transaction is still between you and Google. In the basic case, it doesn't connect that keyword to you, personally, only to the browser. If you're using a Google account (which can be construed as attaching it to a PID), you can opt out of this. Beyond that, Google's privacy policy states they won't share sensitive information without permission (and I expect their lawyers have been over that with a fine-toothed comb). If you're not using a Google account, there's no PID to attach the cookie to anyway. You can use the "private mode" of your browser (all the major ones have them) to not keep information beyond the one session for either case. [/QUOTE]
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