Within minutes, patients looking for online treatment for opioid use and other addictions can complete the assessment and book a video visit with a provider licensed to prescribe suboxone and other drugs.All but one website examined sent URLs users visited on the site and their IP addresses—akin to a mailing address for a computer, which can be used to link information to a specific patient or household—to at least one tech company.To determine what data was being shared by the telehealth sites as we completed their forms, we examined the network traffic between trackers using Chrome DevTools, a tool built into Google’s Chrome browser.“Out of an abundance of caution, we elected to adjust the usage of a number of pixels for now as we continue to evaluate the issue.” “Advertisers should not send sensitive information about people through our Business Tools,” Dale Hogan, a spokesperson for Meta, wrote in an email.But the reality online is more complex, making it all but impossible for the average user to know whether the company they’re entrusting with their data is obligated to protect it."