Outside companies have a troubling amount of access to users' medical information, according to new research.
. In doing so, a small bit of coding provided the namesake social media giant with patients’ “medical conditions, prescriptions, and doctor’s appointments” for advertising purposes.
The most recent deep dive into third-party data tracking on medical websites, however, is even more widespread.
. Outside companies receiving the most data included Google-owners at Alphabet , Meta , and Adobe Systems . Other third-parties regularly included AT&T, Verizon, Amazon, Microsoft, and Oracle.The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act prohibits data tracking “unless certain conditions are met,” according toexplains most third-parties receiving the data aren’t HIPAA-regulated, and thereby the transferred data’s uses and disclosures are “largely unregulated.
“The transferred information could be used for a variety of purposes, such as serving targeted advertisements related to medical conditions, health insurance, or medications,” explainsIn an emailed statement provided tosays they are “deeply disturbed” by the study’s results.
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