96% of US hospital websites share visitor info with Meta, Google, data brokers

Dr.Google will see you now.

96 percent of their websites transmitted user data to third parties.
Additionally, not all of these websites even had a privacy policy. And of the 71 percent that did, 56 percent disclosed specific third-party companies that could receive user information.

One name in particular stood out, in terms of who was receiving website visitors’ information.

“In every study we’ve done, in any part of the health system, Google, whose parent company is Alphabet, is on nearly every page, including hospitals,” Friedman observed.

Reminds me of this:

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