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Facebook Violates Trust of ‘Private’ Patient Groups
Forbes
Thousands of women who carry mutations in the genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 and joined ‘private’ Facebook groups recently learned that their groups were vulnerable to a Chrome plug-in that allowed marketers to discover group members’ names and other private health information. That Chrome plug-in has since been removed from this, and apparently all other private groups, but has left a deep scar in the BRCA community’s trust in Facebook.