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Blue Shield exposed 4.7M patients’ health data to Google

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Blue Shield of California admitted to a major data privacy slip that went on for almost three years .

The company was using Google Analytics to track how people used its member websites.

The shared data included a broad array of protected health information (PHI) Blue Shield's case follows a string of similar breaches.

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