When parents scheduled an appointment for their children on the Nemours page, Facebook received that information By: Alfred Ng and Simon Fondrie-Teitler One of the largest pediatric networks in the country was sending personal information about children and their parents to Facebook, The Markup found. Nemours Children’s Health, which serves [Read More…]
Nadia Bey reports: Four of North Carolina’s largest health care providers sent patient information to Facebook through a tool called Meta Pixel, a recent news report revealed, raising concerns about privacy breaches. On Friday, a class action complaint filed in federal court in San Francisco alleged a health data breach. [Read More…]
Karissa Bell reports: TikTok says it’s achieved a “significant milestone” toward its promises to beef up the security of its US users’ data. In a new update, the company says it has “changed the default storage location of US user data.” As the company notes, it had already stored much of its [Read More…]
Ed Treleven reports: A teen whose alleged sexual assault of a homecoming partygoer prompted student walkouts last year at East High School was arrested last weekend and charged Tuesday with invading the privacy of a 15-year-old girl at a McDonald’s restaurant in Stoughton where he worked. Read more at Madison.com. [Read More…]