I know I should still be talking about Obama backing down from his own mandate (what's his legacy again?). Or Republicans seizing this opening to finish gutting PPACA (which should be easy now). Or even maybe even asking who's running IT for Health and Human Services since the third delay this month sprung out of a computer glitch (where's NSA when you need them?).

But a story from Fast Company stopped me dead in my tracks. And as you'll soon see, there's no way I could resist.

In short: A new study from a University of Southern California-Los Angeles and Duke business school researcher shows some leading health sites are leaking your medical search terms to those third-party trackers that most Internet commerce is built on. 

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