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I run a major hospital's website and have long stood against putting Facebook 'Like' buttons on the site. This article strengthens my resolve. Lots of patients
by mneedham 15y ago
I run a major hospital's website and have long stood against putting Facebook 'Like' buttons on the site. This article strengthens my resolve.
Lots of patients visit hospital websites to research shame conditions - things nobody but their physician has any right/need to know about. Least of all an organization as brazenly anti-privacy as Facebook.
Bumbling around this afternoon I came across a number of hospital websites using Like buttons. I have fired up a Mechanical Turk job to give me a more complete list of US hospitals that do so.
Not sure what I'm going to do with the list yet - name and shame or just a broad education campaign? Seems pretty awful to potentially violate patient privacy in the interest of an extra 'share' or two.