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p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>It's a for-profit hospital, so maybe they are violating HIPAA so that they can display higher quality Facebook ads in the patient appointment booking portal? To increase profits. Seriously, I can't come up with any other motive.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Hacker news if you want to see a ton of comments on this:<br></div><div><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31764406">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31764406</a></div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, Jun 16, 2022, at 6:16 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div dir="ltr"><div>I really can't understand how a hospital in the USA would design their site <br></div><div>to share information with a third party (Facebook in this case), despite them<br></div><div>having the HIPPA legislation since the late 90s. <br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-individuals/guidance-materials-for-consumers/index.html">https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-individuals/guidance-materials-for-consumers/index.html</a><br></div></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>kwlug-disc mailing list<br></div><div><a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a><br></div><div><a href="https://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org">https://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org</a><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>