SC Media September 12, 2022
For women, privacy and control over health information has never been more important, as the U.S. continues its abortion access fight and as some states criminalize the procedure. But beyond the political debate, knowledge gaps on the actual protections for and control of digital health data may lead to severe consequences.
Several reports within the last few months have furthered these digital health privacy concerns, including two showing Facebook’s Pixel tool allegedly scraping hospital data. The Novant Health ACE breach notice that soon followed the report seemed to confirm the dubious practices as 1.4 million patients were told of an “unintended disclosure” via the Meta tool.
During the same time period, reports out of Nebraska showed Facebook was issued a...
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