Can't get life insurance? It's your twitters.

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[online.wsj.com...]

Insurers have long used blood and urine tests to assess people's health—a costly process. Today, however, data-gathering companies have such extensive files on most U.S. consumers—online shopping details, catalog purchases, magazine subscriptions, leisure activities and information from social-networking sites—that some insurers are exploring whether data can reveal nearly as much about a person as a lab analysis of their bodily fluids.

Summary: they use all that online marketing data to make a prediction as to whether you are a good risk. Not a good risk? Maybe you don't even get a mailer offering you insurance. Or if you do, you get put through a much more intensive application process. All because of stuff in your online profile.

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I can well imagine a diligent insurance company going through a social media profile and looking to see if the applicant is up to foolish pranks, or dangerous activities, and putting their life at risk. All easily researchable!

How many more times do we have to bang on about privacy!

[brotherhood of LAN]

Smokers beware!

[J_RaD]

How many more times do we have to bang on about privacy!

im not sure if anyone cares anymore.