[kwlug-disc] have I ever told you guys that Facebook is evil?

[CrankyOldBugger]

Looks Ars Technica has picked up on this as well:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/06/facebook-is-receiving-sensitive-medical-information-from-hospital-websites/



On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 10:25 AM Doug Moen <doug at moens.org> wrote:

> Yup, that is super evil. And it's the hospital that's evil, not just
> Facebook. And it's the American gov't that is legalizing the evil.
>
> I went to the Grand River Hospital web site and found a google tracker,
> but no facebook tracker. Ublock Origin protected me. But this US hospital
> isn't just installing an off the shelf tracker as part of the usual web dev
> "best practices" boilerplate code, their web code is explicitly sending
> detailed personal medical information from form submissions to facebook.
> Fortunately that practice is illegal in Ontario at least.
>
> Although I'm skeptical that Ontario medical privacy legislation provides
> the level of protection you'd expect from a reading of the statutes. The
> vast majority of Ontarians with COVID vaccinations have had their vax
> status made available on the internet.  You have the right to refuse this,
> but they don't tell you this when you get a vax shot. If you make an issue
> of it, then you sign a paper form, they give you a paper vax receipt, and
> your medical information is not posted to the internet.
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2022, at 8:52 AM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
>
> Now they're collecting personal data from hospital websites:
>
>
> https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/06/16/facebook-is-receiving-sensitive-medical-information-from-hospital-websites
>
>
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