Facebook collecting medical info from hospital websites
As per the investigative report jointly published by STAT and The Markup, a tracking tool on approximately one third of hospital websites in the United States has sent private patient information to Facebook.
The tracker, known as Meta Pixel, was identified in online appointment schedule features in 33 of Newsweek's top 100 hospitals in America; in 7 of these hospitals, the tracker also was linked to the hospital's patient portal feature.
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