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• The Markup2026-10-15✓ Read

  Patients: All my best tips on how to opt out of data sharing

  Even when patients are told they can opt out, medical providers often don’t give patients instructions on how. For patients who are interested in opting out, here are my best tips on how to start.

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• The Markup2026-10-15✓ Read

  MyChart and a major hospital said I could opt out of sharing my health data. But they didn’t make it easy

  My journey included a notary, a hospital that won’t honor its own policies and employees that gave me wrong information.

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• The Markup2026-10-14✓ Read

  World’s largest health appointment platform dumps its web trackers after Markup investigation

  Doctoralia said it was removing trackers that communicated with social media companies out of an abundance of caution The world’s largest health appointments platform, Doctoralia, removed web trackers sending personal information to tech companies following an investigation by The Markup and Brazil’s Agência Pública.

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• The Markup2026-10-10✓ Read

  What it takes for voters to be resilience against AI misinformation

  A conversation with political scientist Thessalia Merivaki

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