Hopefully most people know by now that whatever you post on the Internet is not private, and that basically anyone can read it. Hopefully most people know by now that it is a growing trend for employers to use information they find on the Internet in their hiring and firing decisions.
Well, it appears the information found on the Internet can now be used by insurers to make decisions about to whom they will and will not provide insurance.
On January 30 the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey ruled that Blue Cross Blue Shield of N.J. could use information they found in a child’s Internet blog about her eating disorder to deny insurance coverage.
It’s scary to see the trend not only continue, but expand, for accepting information found on the Internet as undisputed facts.
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