[conspire] (forw) Re: [kwlug-disc] have I ever told you guys that Facebook is evil?

[Rick Moen]

Making the point, yet again, that all of you people who just don't worry
about privacy on the Web are idiots.  Facebook _really is_ the most nosy
corporation on the planet, and, yes, you do need the privacy that you
never get with just off-the-shelf Web browsing.  Time to wake up.

Not-a-relative Doug Moen is also correct that the hospitals that
blithely run Meta Pixel Javascript snippets on hospital Web site pages
serving up HIPPA-covered, logged-in patient information are at least as
evil as Facebook is, in this case.  The problem of tracking spyware is
widespread.

There ought to be major criminal prosecution, but almost certainly
won't.  Meantime, self-protect accordingly.


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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 08:52:12 -0400
From: CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
Subject: [kwlug-disc] have I ever told you guys that Facebook is evil?

Now they're collecting personal data from hospital Web sites:

https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/06/16/facebook-is-receiving-sensitive-medical-information-from-hospital-websites

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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 12:08:47 -0400
From: CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] have I ever told you guys that Facebook is evil?

Looks Ars Technica has picked up on this as well:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/06/facebook-is-receiving-sensitive-medical-information-from-hospital-websites/

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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 10:23:38 -0400
From: Doug Moen <doug at moens.org>
To: KWLUG Discuss <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] have I ever told you guys that Facebook is evil?

Yup, that is super evil.  And it's the hospital that's evil, not just
Facebook.  And it's the American gov't that is legalizing the evil.

I went to the Grand River Hospital Web site and found a Google tracker,
but no Facebook tracker.  Ublock Origin protected me.  But this US
hospital isn't just installing an off-the-shelf tracker as part of the
usual Web dev "best practices" boilerplate code; their Web code is
explicitly sending detailed personal medical information from form
submissions to Facebook.  Fortunately, that practice is illegal in
Ontario, at least.

Although I'm skeptical that Ontario medical privacy legislation provides
the level of protection you'd expect from a reading of the statutes.  The
vast majority of Ontarians with COVID vaccinations have had their vax
status made available on the Internet.  You have the right to refuse
this, but they don't tell you this when you get a vax shot.  If you make
an issue of it, then you sign a paper form, they give you a paper vax
receipt, and your medical information is not posted to the Internet.

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