Someone involved in this has violated HIPAA laws and it needs to be stopped! I would encourage anyone else that receives such mailings in the future to flood MS One to One and Genzyme/Sanofi with phone calls and emails expressing your anger at their intrusive behaviors.Unsolicited Ads
Unsolicited Ads
Has anyone been receiving unsolicited advertisements for Aubagio from MS One to One, their marketing and administration arm? My wife is on a regimen from another supplier and we have never asked for anything regarding Aubagio. I contacted MS One to One and they said they are aware of some "misdirected mailings" but were unwilling to tell us how they were made aware that we were potential customers. Further, they were unwilling to provide a timeframe in which they would contact us to inform us of how they obtained the information. Someone involved in this has violated HIPAA laws and it needs to be stopped! I would encourage anyone else that receives such mailings in the future to flood MS One to One and Genzyme/Sanofi with phone calls and emails expressing your anger at their intrusive behaviors.
Someone involved in this has violated HIPAA laws and it needs to be stopped! I would encourage anyone else that receives such mailings in the future to flood MS One to One and Genzyme/Sanofi with phone calls and emails expressing your anger at their intrusive behaviors.-
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Re: Unsolicited Ads
If it's snail mail, I'd agree with you. If it's email, your browser, search engine and even your smart phone cull your browsing information and target ads to people who've visited certain sites, posted on certain forums or done certain searches.
Since I got my new smart phone a month ago, I've been getting loads of ads for MS, anti-inflammatories, etc., due to my activity on the CPn Help site. I'm sure I'm about to get a boatload more, thanks to my visit here today. The creepy thing is, if I visit on the cell / internet, I get the ads on my netbook, as soon as I use internet explorer on the netbook.
Since I got my new smart phone a month ago, I've been getting loads of ads for MS, anti-inflammatories, etc., due to my activity on the CPn Help site. I'm sure I'm about to get a boatload more, thanks to my visit here today. The creepy thing is, if I visit on the cell / internet, I get the ads on my netbook, as soon as I use internet explorer on the netbook.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems. Mohandas Gandhi
Re: Unsolicited Ads
Delete your cookies, especially your Google cookies. You can set Mozilla Firefox to retain cookies only for the current session. If you need some cookies, e.g., for a banking site or something else, then you can easily add an exception. In Firefox, Tools menu, Options, Privacy, Cookies, Exceptions. Then type the name of the website, e.g., mybank.com, and click the Allow option. Cookies with the Allow option set will be retained and all others will be discarded when the browser is closed. Note that cookies often originate from a subdomain of a site, e.g., server-x.mybank.com, so you'll need to add those to the exception list as well. To see where your cookies are coming from, click the Show Cookies button in the Privacy section. Don't bother with session cookies as they don't persist past the current session.MacKintosh wrote:If it's snail mail, I'd agree with you. If it's email, your browser, search engine and even your smart phone cull your browsing information and target ads to people who've visited certain sites, posted on certain forums or done certain searches.
Since I got my new smart phone a month ago, I've been getting loads of ads for MS, anti-inflammatories, etc., due to my activity on the CPn Help site. I'm sure I'm about to get a boatload more, thanks to my visit here today. The creepy thing is, if I visit on the cell / internet, I get the ads on my netbook, as soon as I use internet explorer on the netbook.
An episode of CBS's 60 Minutes discussed the proliferation of tracking and analytics. Tracking what people do on the web is big business.
http://www.cbs.com/shows/60_minutes/vid ... tion-alma/