State Health Sites Leak to Trackers

State‑run health insurance marketplaces included advertising and analytics trackers that transmitted sensitive details (ZIP code, sex, race, citizenship status and page visits) to social and ad platforms. That means people applying for Medicaid, DACA‑related help, or other safety‑net services may have had their health‑related signals shared with firms like Meta, TikTok, Google and others without meaningful safeguards. — This reframes government digital services as potential surveillance vectors, raising questions about oversight, vendor contracts, civil‑rights protections, and whether states must ban third‑party trackers on public health portals.