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

[William Park]

No one is gonna get fired over this.  So, don't worry about it.

On 2022-06-16 10:23, Doug Moen 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 
>> <https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/06/16/facebook-is-receiving-sensitive-medical-information-from-hospital-websites>
>>
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