Becker's Healthcare March 6, 2023
The FTC is taking a heightened interest in protecting the privacy of health data online and is cracking down on companies such as GoodRx and Amazon as it looks to take a new approach to regulating data collection.
For the first time, the FTC used its Health Breach Notification Rule against GoodRx Holdings for “failing to notify consumers and others of its unauthorized disclosures of consumers’ personal health information” for years.
The company, which was illegally sharing patient data to advertise on Facebook and Google, paid $1.5 million to resolve the allegations, as well had to notify its users that their information was improperly disclosed.
The FTC also banned the company from disclosing health information for advertising...
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