I'm not so sure this is true 100%. I just tried what they suggested and typed 'Egypt' in the google search box. I got both the info sites and the news sites with protests and stuff.
It's probably determined by how much info they have on you. I get different search results depending on if I'm at work or at home.
I've also used less Google in recent months - I block most of their cookies and I don't really use their search. So I notice I get less consistent results.
It is interesting but also unnecessarily inflammatory. Insurance companies (in the U.S.) can't use your search for "herpes" to raise the prices of your insurance or refuse to cover you. Well, they can't do it anymore since the ACA passed.
The part about what you see being tailored to you (the bubble) is worth thinking about, but the Scary Consequences part is way overblown.
IDK what insurance companies will or won't do - what I do know is that information about everything you do affects your insurance policy. We had an increase in our car policy because of a bad storm which damaged our ROOF (the house, not the car).
So, I think you can say that a search legally SHOULDN'T affect your health insurance but I don't think I can say that it CAN'T/WON'T.
Now, the changes to American healthcare makes pre-existing conditions coverable by law - but what that does to your premium...who knows?
I've also used less Google in recent months - I block most of their cookies and I don't really use their search. So I notice I get less consistent results.
The part about what you see being tailored to you (the bubble) is worth thinking about, but the Scary Consequences part is way overblown.
So, I think you can say that a search legally SHOULDN'T affect your health insurance but I don't think I can say that it CAN'T/WON'T.
Now, the changes to American healthcare makes pre-existing conditions coverable by law - but what that does to your premium...who knows?