What web browsing reveals about your health

@article{Libert2015WhatWB,
  title={What web browsing reveals about your health},
  author={Timothy Libert and David Grande and David A. Asch},
  journal={BMJ : British Medical Journal},
  year={2015},
  volume={351}
}
Advertisers can learn a lot from our digital footprints, including about our health. Timothy Libert and colleagues argue that we need to tighten restrictions on such data for marketing purposes while looking at their potential to improve health 
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