Becker's Healthcare August 11, 2022
Naomi Diaz

Facebook is facing two lawsuits over a tracking tool that allegedly has been targeting ads to people based on information about their health collected via code in hospital websites, raising concerns over the potential digital gaps in patient privacy protections, Bloomberg Law report Aug. 10.

One of the suits, filed in the Northern California district of U.S. District Court alleges that the tracking tool, dubbed Meta Pixel, collected sensitive medical information without consent from patient portals for UCSF Medical Center and Dignity Health.

Another suit filed in California federal court, also alleges that the tracking tool has been installed at more than 664 health system and medical provider websites and is receiving private medical data when patients access...

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Topics: Healthcare System, Patient / Consumer, Privacy / Security, Provider, Social Media, Technology
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