Didn't expect something relevant to what I do to show up on HN. This has been a hot button issue for the last two years ever since the Markup did a report on hospitals sharing data with Facebook[0]. Since then the government has explicitly called this out as a problem[1] and a number of hospitals and related companies are dealing with fines and lawsuits[2][3][4]

Given the government is actually enforcing the law for once, this is one of the few times I've seen people take regulation like this seriously.

[0] https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/06/16/facebook-is-rece...

[1] https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance...

[2] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/07/...

[3] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/02/...

[4] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/costco-sued-accused-sharing-c...