Patients treated at two healthcare facilities in California filed lawsuits against both Meta and healthcare organizations. Meta, which allegedly collects patients’ data illegally, is accused of collecting data for advertising purposes.
Meta, co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg In addition to the innovations it has made on its sub-platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Whatsapp, and the lawsuits filed against it. continues to come to the fore. The giant company has spent 3.1 billion dollars in the past months. a case was faced with. in the UK owned by 44 million Facebook users It was alleged that the data was misused in an anti-competitive manner.
Meta was sued again because of Facebook. According to the allegations, patients treated at two health institutions called UCSF Medical Center and Dignity Health Medical Foundation in California, USA, Meta’s patient’s conditiondoctor and prescription drugs He claimed that he had illegally obtained a lot of information, such as the patient’s confidential information.
Meta and hospitals sued for failing to provide user consent
Plaintiffs claimed this violation of patients’ rights on Facebook. with ads tailored to their disease He stated that they noticed when they started to meet frequently. Neither Meta nor health institutions can use this data, which is claimed to contain highly sensitive information of the patient. not informing patients and any no user consent was sued for.
Meta’s patient information is found on the websites of 33 of the top 100 hospitals in the US. Pixel service It is estimated to be reached with In 7 hospitals, it is claimed that Pixel obtained the information even by bypassing password-protected patient portals.
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Under the medical privacy act HIPAA, healthcare organizations require patient consent to share personally identifiable health information with outside groups. Meta says it requires groups using Meta Pixel to have the right to share data before sending data to Facebook, and filters out sensitive health data. The lawsuits allege that Meta did not knowingly enforce these policies and put the Pixel on healthcare organizations’ websites despite knowing it would collect personal health information.