Article 43DM7 You snooze, you lose: Insurers make the old adage literally true

You snooze, you lose: Insurers make the old adage literally true

by
Ars Staff
from Ars Technica - All content on (#43DM7)
cpap-1-800x534.jpg

Enlarge / For millions of sleep apnea sufferers, CPAP machines are the only way to get a good night's sleep. (credit: Somsak Bumroongwong / EyeEm)

Last March, Tony Schmidt discovered something unsettling about the machine that helps him breathe at night. Without his knowledge, it was spying on him.

From his bedside, the device was tracking when he was using it and sending the information not just to his doctor, but to the maker of the machine, to the medical supply company that provided it, and to his health insurer.

Schmidt, an information technology specialist from Carrollton, Texas, was shocked. "I had no idea they were sending my information across the wire."

Read 56 remaining paragraphs | Comments

index?i=sOUn9VAx7BM:sBj-KH52wRg:V_sGLiPB index?i=sOUn9VAx7BM:sBj-KH52wRg:F7zBnMyn index?d=qj6IDK7rITs index?d=yIl2AUoC8zA
External Content
Source RSS or Atom Feed
Feed Location http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index
Feed Title Ars Technica - All content
Feed Link https://arstechnica.com/
Reply 0 comments