Facebook Is Receiving Sensitive Medical Information from Hospital Websites – The Markup

Experts say some hospitals’ use of an ad tracking tool may violate a federal law protecting health information

@TryshHQ @themarkup I work on Government websites and can't tell you how often an agency will hire an ad agency/design firm that wants to add persistent tracking cookies to justify and track ad expenditures. I patiently explain that they are allowing third-parties (including Facebook) to track user behavior on their site (and even off-site), and that their visitors might not like it. They usually tell me to add them anyway.