Sharing hospital website user data with 3rd parties is common, study shows

A new statistical analysis of 90 distinct hospital websites, drawn from a nationally representative sample of 100 community hospitals, finds that those providers – when they had privacy policies available for consumption – were inadequate in how they accurately disclosed the use of third-party tracking technologies to consumers.

In addition to comparing details about third-party recipients of collected user data, user rights and potential uses, the study also looked at the readability of the policies available. 

Of the community hospitals …

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