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The FTC, Fertility App Premom, and Sharing Consumer Health Data
Lawfare www.lawfareblog.com
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) just charged that Premom, the fertility tracking app, shared hundreds of thousands of users’ information, unencrypted, with third parties. These include the marketing analytics company AppsFlyer, tech giant Google, and two companies based in China, including one owned by the Chinese tech conglomerate Alibaba. Samuel Levine, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, stated that “companies collecting this …
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