The federal government has stopped overtly sharing your private info from the Obamacare web site with non-public corporations.

Earlier this week, the federal government got here below fireplace after the Related Press revealed that Healthcare.gov was reporting customers' private info, reminiscent of zip code, revenue stage, being pregnant standing and whether or not or not you smoke.

That info was shared Googling (GOOG), Tweet (TWTR), Yahoo (JOO) and different corporations that observe folks on-line, such because the advert serving service DoubleClick.

The proof was within the web site code itself.

However on Friday, CNNMoney learn the code and located that Healthcare.gov was not passing on private info to DoubleClick and others.

Obama administration officers didn’t reply to requests for remark Friday.

However on Saturday, a prime official on the Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Companies wrote in an announcement that the company “has added a layer of encryption that limits the knowledge accessible to the third-party instruments we use by way of our URLs.”

The change adopted an inside overview of Healthcare.gov's privateness coverage, wrote Kevin Counihan, CEO of {the marketplace}.

After preliminary studies of the privateness considerations, Republican Senators Orrin Hatch and Chuck Grassley wrote a letter to the top of the Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Companies demanding solutions.

Citing Healthcare.gov's many technological issues, they wrote, “This new info is extraordinarily regarding, not solely as a result of it violates the privateness of tens of millions of Individuals, however as a result of it might probably compromise their security.”

To be truthful, the software program instruments utilized by Healthcare.gov had been fashionable providers that assist enhance the design of a web site (CNNMoney makes use of them).

However well being officers have declined to elucidate why DoubleClick, an promoting business firm that tracks folks's looking habits, ought to know whether or not customers smoke or are pregnant.

Google, for its half, instructed CNNMoney that it doesn't ask to your private well being info anyway.

“We don't need or use that type of knowledge,” mentioned Andrea Faville, a Google spokeswoman. “And we don’t permit DoubleClick programs for use to focus on advertisements based mostly on details about your well being or medical historical past.”

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When CNNMoney discovered that the Well being and Human Companies Division was sending info to 3rd events in 2013, HHS solely wished to make sure that the info shared with DoubleClick and others was despatched to them securely.

That method was criticized by privateness advocates such because the Digital Frontier Basis.

Noah Lang, CEO of medical health insurance startup Stride Well being, mentioned the usage of these monitoring instruments was sloppy and inappropriate.

“I don't assume it's essential to construct an excellent person expertise,” he mentioned. “Ought to they ship figuring out info to a third-party advertiser? The beautiful clear reply is not any. It's an enormous invasion of private privateness.”

When CNNMoney learn by way of the pc code on the Healthcare.gov web site on Friday, sure traces of code indicating that the web site despatched such private info in the course of the sign-up course of had been lacking.

Cooper Quintin, a workers technologist at EFF, confirmed that the code was gone.

“That's an excellent first step they will take,” he mentioned.

Nevertheless, whereas Healthcare.gov not transfers your private info by way of the entrance finish, it isn’t clear what info could also be shared as soon as it’s saved on authorities computer systems.

–CNN's Jim Acosta contributed to this report.

CNNMoney (New York) First printed January 23, 2015: 4:48 PM ET