Hospitals Are Sharing Sensitive Info With Facebook

Ars Technica reports:

A tracking tool installed on many hospitals’ websites has been collecting patients’ sensitive health information—including details about their medical conditions, prescriptions, and doctor’s appointments—and sending it to Facebook.

The Markup tested the websites of Newsweek’s top 100 hospitals in America. On 33 of them we found the tracker, called the Meta Pixel, sending Facebook a packet of data whenever a person clicked a button to schedule a doctor’s appointment.

Read the full article.

There’s much more. So creepy.

NEW: Some of the country’s top hospitals have been sending sensitive patient information to Facebook.

These hospitals may have violated HIPAA, experts say. https://t.co/SfXV0ZNzYj

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