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hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

IIRC there were hospitals in the US that violated HIPAA by accident because they used the Meta Pixel to aggregate useful information on their website, but which was also sending more information than they knew to Meta. So, it does “just happen”.

Meta is doing it knowingly though so….

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ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Only an absolute brain dead moron would think using a Meta tracking pixel wasn’t going to exfiltrate information to Meta. Thats the level of negligence with important data that should be punished. If people are scared to collect data, then the correct goal has been achieved.

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- hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  They didn’t think that using Meta pixel would send absolutely no information to Meta. They were on board with that. They just didn’t think it would send sensitive medical information to Meta.
  
  While I do agree with you, sometimes you have to wonder, “Do these places have anyone in IT at all?”
  
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  - ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    IT experts do nothing except reduce profit margins. You wouldn’t want a lower profit margin, would you?
    
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themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
If these laws came into place, you would ofc create a grace periode, resulting in løser punishments.

It will give corps a window to really check wtf they are doing, and take it seriously.

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Szyler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
And a few fines to popular websites and news reports about it and people will start to learn what the law is and don’t implement meta haphazardly. “just happen” will quickly turn to “rarely happens” once it becomes enforced.

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