Health
Health-Care Companies Are Sending Your Data to Big Tech
- Largest US insurers, hospitals and labs deployed web trackers
- Health companies have faced lawsuits concerning data exposures
A CVS pharmacy store in San Francisco,.
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California-based health system Kaiser Permanente recently alerted millions of people that their private information was inappropriately shared with tech giants, angering patients who weren’t aware of the practice.
A Bloomberg News analysis showed the same kinds of online trackers remain on the websites of the nation’s largest health-care companies, often unknown to their millions of patients.