Surveillance and ICE Are Driving Patients Away From Medical Care, Report Warns

EPIC’s report outlines a U.S. health privacy crisis driven by data brokerage, ad-tech tracking, and weak privacy protections that allow health-related data to flow outside clinical settings into commercial and government surveillance; drawing on investigations of Meta Pixel on hospital sites and health-targeted advertising within major platforms, it warns of potential HIPAA violations, profiling, discrimination, and deterrence from care, and calls for stronger legal limits and enforcement.