What is the Facebook Pixel Code? Facebook pixel is a Facebook-generated tracking code that has to be installed on your website if you use Facebook to market your business. You can have a website ...

Four of North Carolina’s largest health care providers sent patient information to Facebook through a tool called Meta Pixel, a recent news report revealed, raising concerns about privacy breaches. On ...

An investigation by The Markup found that pixel collects data from many students using other websites, including high schoolers who sign up for financial aid and college testing. Then the code shares ...

Healthcare startups are scrambling to reassess how their websites and apps are built, and how third parties may, inadvertently or not, be putting patients’ protected health information at risk. In ...

An investigation by The Markup found that some tax-filing websites using pixel code shared its users’ financial information with Facebook. Most websites have code running in the background to help the ...

The internet is a labyrinthian place, and Facebook is hiding around almost every corner. A new tool, dubbed Blacklight, helps you spot the behemoth lying in wait. "[The] pixel will fire when someone ...

This article was copublished with The Markup, a nonprofit, investigative newsroom that challenges technology to serve the public good. Sign up for its newsletters here. Picture a high school student ...