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FTC Urged to Enforce Rules that Protects User Health Data Shared with Fertility Apps

The Flo and Premom apps shared customer data with Big Tech companies such as Facebook or Google without informing the users. The Health Breach Notification Rule covers this situation, but theres a problem: While the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights enforces HIPPA, the FTC enforced the Health Breach notification Rule. The lawmakers say that, while the FTC has been active for more than a decade, the rule has yet to enforce it against period-tracking apps disclosing personal health information to third parties without users’ authorization.”]

Source: https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/ftc-urged-to-enforce-rules-that-protects-user-health-data-shared-with-fertility-apps/

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