Two Louisiana hospital systems accused of sharing patient data with Facebook, Instagram
At the heart of the lawsuits is a tracking tool embedded into hospitals' website codes called Meta Pixel, a product of Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram.
The lawsuits say the tracker shared sensitive medical data without the knowledge or consent of hundreds of thousands of patients, a violation of
The code works by capturing medical information like health conditions, prescriptions, doctors' names and appointment history when patients opt to schedule an appointment online. That information could then be used to send patients targeted advertisements.
The lawsuits argue that this is a violation of
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"What you are asking about gets automatically redirected to Facebook and then they can use that in some way, or sell it, or who knows what they do with the information," said Herman, of
Dozens of hospitals across the country are now part of similar class-action suits, according to news reports.
In a statement attributed to the health system's legal team, Willis-Knighton said it was "one of many hospitals throughout the nation (including
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Unlike many lawsuits, the
The lawsuit against
The lawsuit against Willis-Knighton, which operates five hospitals and several specialty centers in northwest
There is one class representative in each of the lawsuits, which were filed in
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