Hospital websites are sending medical information to Facebook

Posted by serverlessmom on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @12:33PM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/16/23170886/hospital-websites-meta-pixel-tracker-facebook-hipaa

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Re:Hospital websites are sending medical information to Face... by FigureTheGreat on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @02:30PM (#31827359)

HIPPA fines are per record - if this is found to break HIPPA rules, and the tracking has been in place for a while, the cost could be huge.

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Re:Hospital websites are sending medical information to Face... by voakbasda on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @06:50PM (#31830017)

Unfortunately it seems that government does not have the spine to enforce meaningful punishments against the tech giants, and that status quo seems unlikely to change over this kind of breach.

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