Federal judge skeptical over Facebook’s claims that it doesn’t collect hospital’s patient data

Becker's Healthcare November 11, 2022
Naomi Diaz

U.S. District Judge William Orrick expressed skepticism when Meta, Facebook’s parent company, said its pixel tool does not collect sensitive patient data from hospitals and health systems without disclosure, BankInfoSecurity reported Nov. 10.

Meta is facing a consolidated class action lawsuit in San Francisco federal court for allegedly violating medical privacy laws by obtaining medical data from its pixel tool that has been embedded into patient portals and scheduling apps at various hospitals and health systems.

Lauren Goldberg, Facebook’s outside attorney, told Mr. Orrick that Facebook’s “generalized disclosures say that when you travel around the web and interact with websites, they can send your information [to Meta].”

Mr. Orrick said the disclosures “​​don’t say anything about your health information,”...

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