Why were hospital websites using a tracking pixel? That's on them. Like, Meta is scummy company, but whose choice was it to put a tracking pixel, whoever it's from, on a hospital website?
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2023
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I wonder if it was the hospitals that put the pixel there. Portals are usually outsourced to software vendors. If so many hospitals did it it might be the vendor's stupid choice.
If you use the Meta-provided “find us on Facebook” icon on your Web site, it works like a tracking pixel.
How does a free news service have a paywall?
Idk but Reuters is an easy one to get around of your browser has a reader mode (like Firefox)
Yes, and even easier with their app. It just seems strange.
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Sorry, I forgot using the share menu copies the original link instead of the 12ft.io one in my address bar for some reason.
Thanks. It’s going to be an interesting case at trial.
This spells disaster for other corporate spyware like the new Chrome (and chromium) browsers.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco said the plaintiffs could pursue claims that Meta violated a federal wiretap law and a California privacy law, and violated its own contractual promises governing user privacy on Facebook.
In a 26-page decision on Thursday, the judge said the case, based on the evidence so far, "does not negate the plausible allegations that sensitive healthcare information is intentionally captured and transmitted to Meta."
The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages for all Facebook users whose health information was obtained by Meta.
Neither Meta nor lawyers for the Menlo Park, California-based company responded on Friday to requests for immediate comment.
When the litigation began in June 2020, lawyers for one plaintiff said they had found at least 664 hospitals and other healthcare providers that used Meta Pixel.
Orrick, however, said it was not clear whether Meta did enough to stop the transmission of patient details, or might be excused because healthcare providers actually consented to it.
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