User Information Sharing and Hospital Website Privacy Policies
jamanetwork.com
This cross-sectional study examines whether hospital websites have accessible privacy policies and whether those policies contain key information related to third-party tracking.
  • ObamaBinLaden@lemmy.world
    107·
    8 months ago

    The post title omits crucial information of what the post is actually about.

    I looked at the post because I was surprised that there would be someone out there who didn’t expect hospitals to share data. How did they think insurance works?

      • akwd169@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        8 months ago

        Thank you, someone who actually read the study not just the title!

        Median data transfer to third parties is 9 per website. Those third parties? Mostly advertisers and marketers, most commonly google.

        The disclosed purpose of collecting that data and transmitting to other companies? They literally tell you it’s for marketing and advertising in their privacy policy.

  • HowMany@lemmy.ml
    41·
    8 months ago

    Yes. Third parties include, but are not limited to insurance companies, the government (state and local and federal), international medical data banks, collection agencies, credit bureaus, every big pharma doing research on the planet, and anyone with a ‘smart’ phone. Oh. And them… the smartphone guys.