Twitter issued an apology today. The text of it is reproduced below, in full. As background or context, you may wish to read this post about the FTC’s actions. We may have asked for your phone number or email address to secure or authenticate your account (for example, for two-factor [Read More…]
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…]
Facebook and Anti-Abortion Clinics Are Collecting Highly Sensitive Info on Would-Be Patients The social media giant gathers data from crisis pregnancy centers through a tracking tool that works whether or not a person is logged in to their Facebook account By: Grace Oldham and Dhruv Mehrotra This article is a [Read More…]