From Unmuzzled News. com
The COVID regime has not experienced any accountability.
Fallout from the pandemic still has not been fully addressed.
And one hospital policy will leave you absolutely speechless.
In light of the pandemic, there was an exponential growth in telemedicine because of various COVID restrictions and fears.
The downside to the explosion in telehealth is the erosion of digital privacy.
And it turns out that hospitals have been sharing data with Big Tech firms regarding patients and their website searches.
Time to re-think tele-health
For example, a patient may have a telehealth visit, then log out of the popup web portal but remain on the health system’s website.
The patient has an expectation of privacy after logging out of the session, but his or her searches on the website regarding a particular medical condition can be tracked and shared.
A paper in the Journal Health Affairs “found that third-party tracking is present on 98.6 percent of hospital websites, including transfers to large technology companies, social media companies, advertising firms, and data brokers. Hospitals in health systems, hospitals with a medical school affiliation, and hospitals serving more urban patient populations all exposed visitors to higher levels of tracking in adjusted analyses.”
The American Hospital Association (AHA) argued that the tracking software is a way to enhance customer experience, but patients are often unaware that their web sessions are being monitored.
The AHA argued in a complaint against the federal government that “[h]ospitals and health systems have long honored the balance HIPAA strikes. They take seriously their obligation to safeguard the privacy of patient records and billing statements. At the same time, they have embraced the federal government’s support for sharing non-private health-related information on their publicly accessible webpages that neither require nor request patients to enter login information for user authentication.”
Convenience is killing privacy
The AHA argued that the third-party software is used for “analytic tools,” “video technologies,” “translation technologies,” and “map and location technologies.”
Patients are right to be dubious about the claims that data-sharing with Big Tech is harmless.
Companies like Google and social media platforms have large amounts of data on all its users.
In the case of Facebook, even people who have never signed up for a page could have a ghost account because they are in a network with friends and family who do have accounts.
Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover and release of the Twitter Files proved that Big Tech platforms cannot be given the benefit of the doubt.
Certainly not when it comes to sensitive health data.
Stay tuned to Unmuzzled News for any updates to this ongoing story.
The criminal deep state knows how complacent and lazy the sheep are. Hell of a price to pay for ‘convenience’.
Keep filling out those 23 & Me and Ancestry.com forms and sending your DNA to those outfits.
I’m *sure* the deep state / Criminals In America have absolutely *nothing* to do with that information.
“Safe and Secure”. Just like your cell phones.
Uh-huh.