The Register reports on a study by the University of Pennsylvania that claims 96% of US hospital websites are transmitting user data to third parties. The main recipients are the usual suspects in Google and Meta, plus Adobe. They collect IP addresses, browser type and the website you visited prior to the hospitals, which when combined with the pages you visit on the site, provide these companies with insights (e.g: you spent a lot of time looking at abortion info the last week) that are combined with other data they have on you. Of course, hardly any hospitals actually disclose this in their privacy policy. I bet the hospitals don't even have the faintest idea this is going on, they just slap this shit on the website because, well, that's what web developers do, right?
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