{"id":7297,"date":"2018-02-18T02:45:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T10:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=7297"},"modified":"2021-08-02T03:43:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T10:43:43","slug":"swedish-public-healthcare-portal-is-sending-your-symptoms-to-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/swedish-public-healthcare-portal-is-sending-your-symptoms-to-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Public Healthcare Portal is sending your symptoms to Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 125%; font-weight: 600;\">Because of pure sloppiness in web design, the Swedish Public Healthcare portal is sending every single symptom and medication search to Google.<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish Public Healthcare portal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1177.se\/\">1177<\/a> \u2014 named so for historical reasons, since that is the Swedish \u201cDial-a-Nurse\u201d phone number \u2014 is sending all your searches for embarrassing symptoms and sensitive medications to Google. Not as part of the search, ironically enough; it\u2019s being sent to Google as part of <em>Google Analytics<\/em>, as seen in the screenshot below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1177.se\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7299\" src=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1177.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1651\" height=\"1249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1177.png 1651w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1177-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1177-768x581.png 768w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1177-1024x775.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1177-1200x908.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We can see in the screenshot above that somebody has searched for \u201cembarrassing symptoms\u201d. With the <em>Ghostery<\/em> plug-in turned off, a call is made to Google Analytics (the <em>ga.js<\/em> script), to the host <em>ssl.google-analytics.com<\/em> highlighted in the screenshot above, which sends the data <em>embarrassing symptoms<\/em> in cleartext (the third highlight) as part of the Referer field.<\/p>\n<p>This happens even when you\u2019re browsing over HTTPS\/SSL, because of how bad this design is.<\/p>\n<p>This is when we need to go back and review just how atrociously bad the understanding is with authorities for <em>the most basic<\/em> of information hygiene. They seem to get that they can\u2019t use Google to <em>actually search<\/em> for the symptoms, since that would be intrusive, but then somebody bolts on Google Analytics to send all your symptoms and medications to Google <em>anyway<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This is so bad, I really don\u2019t know how to articulate my feelings of despair and anger. This would be insanely bad enough if it were a random incompetent and insignificant company. However, it is not; this is with the Swedish Healthcare <em>Authorities<\/em>. So at the same time, the people who did <em>this<\/em> to the population are the same people who are <em>making laws about the Internet<\/em>, and they obviously don\u2019t understand the very <em>basics<\/em> of information hygiene.<\/p>\n<p>They are basically behaving like two drunken elephants named Dunning and Kruger who are clumsily trumpeting about in a porcelain factory.<\/p>\n<p>Privacy remains your own responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of pure sloppiness in web design, the Swedish Public Healthcare portal is sending every single symptom and medication search to Google. The Swedish Public Healthcare portal 1177 \u2014 named so for historical reasons, since that is the Swedish \u201cDial-a-Nurse\u201d phone number \u2014 is sending all your searches for embarrassing symptoms and sensitive medications to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/swedish-public-healthcare-portal-is-sending-your-symptoms-to-google\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Swedish Public Healthcare Portal is sending your symptoms to Google&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":true,"_modified_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Swedish Healthcare Authority portal is sending your symptoms to Google<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sweden&#039;s healthcare portal is sending sensitive symptom and medication searches to Google. 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