When parents scheduled an appointment for their children on the Nemours page, Facebook received that information By: Alfred Ng and Simon Fondrie-Teitler One of the largest pediatric networks in the country was sending personal information about children and their parents to Facebook, The Markup found. Nemours Children’s Health, which serves nearly half a million families…
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What is Meta Pixel, the code detected on health system websites in NC and beyond?
Nadia Bey reports: Four of North Carolina’s largest health care providers sent patient information to Facebook through a tool called Meta Pixel, a recent news report revealed, raising concerns about privacy breaches. On Friday, a class action complaint filed in federal court in San Francisco alleged a health data breach. It accuses Meta, Facebook’s owner,…
Facebook and Anti-Abortion Clinics Are Collecting Highly Sensitive Info on Would-Be Patients
Facebook and Anti-Abortion Clinics Are Collecting Highly Sensitive Info on Would-Be Patients The social media giant gathers data from crisis pregnancy centers through a tracking tool that works whether or not a person is logged in to their Facebook account By: Grace Oldham and Dhruv Mehrotra This article is a collaboration with Reveal from The…
Firefox: Our new cookie protection will stop companies tracking you across sites
Liam Tung reports: Mozilla has rolled out a privacy protection it calls “Total Cookie Protection” as the default for the browser on Windows, Mac and Linux. The idea behind Total Cookie Protection is that cookies remain limited to the site from which they were added to a browser. Mozilla’s analogy for the functionality of Total…