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Mon 09/19:
Meta Faces Mounting Questions from Congress on Health Data Privacy As Hospitals Remove Facebook Tracker – The Markup
After a Markup investigation in June, 28 hospitals removed the Meta Pixel or blocked it from sending patient information to Facebook By Todd Feathers and Simon Fondrie-Teitler
Meta is facing mounting questions about its access to sensitive medical data following a Markup investigation that found the company’s pixel tracking tool collecting details about patients’ doctor’s appointments, prescriptions, and health conditions on hospital websites. During a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) requested that Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—provide a “comprehensive and precise” accounting of the medical information it keeps on users. Our system is designed to filter out potentially sensitive data it is able to detect.” Report Deeply and Fix Things Because it turns out moving fast and breaking things broke some super important things. In the breach notification, Novant Health stated the pixel was added as part of a promotional campaign to encourage use of Novant’s MyChart patient portal, but “the pixel was configured incorrectly and may have allowed certain private information to be transmitted to Meta.” The other lawsuits were brought on behalf of patients of Novant Health and hospitals in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago. The engineers’ comments echo the same worries expressed in a 2021 privacy memo written by Facebook engineers that was leaked to Vice.
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