Meta, co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg In addition to the innovations it has brought to 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 in recent months. a case was confronted. in the United Kingdom owned by 44 million Facebook users It was alleged that the data was misused in an anti-competitive manner.

Meta was again sued over Facebook. According to the allegations, patients were treated at two health facilities called UCSF Medical Center and Dignity Health Medical Foundation in California, US, Meta’s patient’s conditiondoctor and prescribed medicines He claimed that he had illegally obtained a lot of information, such as confidential information from the patient.

Meta and hospitals sued for not giving user consent

Plaintiffs alleged this violation of patients’ rights on Facebook. with advertisements tailored to their illness He stated that they noticed when they started to meet often. Neither Meta nor healthcare facilities can use this data, which is claimed to contain highly sensitive patient information. not informing patients And each no user consent was indicted for.

Meta’s patient information can be found on the websites of 33 of the top 100 hospitals in the US. Pixel service It is estimated to be achieved with 7 hospitals claiming that Pixel obtained the information even by bypassing password-protected patient portals.

Under the HIPAA Medical Privacy Act, 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 that sensitive health data is filtered out. The lawsuits allege that Meta did not knowingly enforce this policy and put the Pixel on health care organizations’ websites, despite knowing it would collect personal health information.