Health firms breached Privacy Act with online tracking


David Allen
Reporter

Two healthcare services breached privacy laws handing over “incredibly intimate details” of millions of people accessing their websites to Meta, TikTok and Google for years, the privacy commissioner has found in a first of its kind ruling for Australia.

Inconspicuous and unidentified tracking pixels were used to non-consensually collect intimate details like names, ages, contact details, online chat and even medications purchased, before turning them around to target users with …

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