The Markup found that one-third of Newsweek’s Top 100 hospitals let Meta’s Pixel tracking tool collect patient data on their web sites, likely violating HIPAA privacy protection of medical data. Tracked clicks of doctor appointment scheduling shared doctors’ names, service search information, drop-down selects and patient identifiers.

Apple, which has been held up as a company leading the way in privacy transparency, is being questioned again about whether its efforts also rig the system in its own favor by limiting information access to outside developers. In this case, Germany’s competition regulator, Bundeskartellamt, is looking into whether a recently added privacy setting that requires developers to get user consent to access “Identifier for Advertisers” on an app-by-app basis gives Apple unfair advantage, since it can access information directly as first-party data.