Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Susan Collins (R-ME), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) sent letters to telehealth companies Cerebral, Monument, and WorkIt Health, addressing concerns...
An analysis of a dozen opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment and recovery websites revealed significant data privacy concerns and a need for stronger legal protections for addiction treatment data, a...
WakeMed Health and Hospitals is the subject of a proposed class action lawsuit stemming from a data breach that allegedly led to patient data being transmitted to Facebook (Meta) through the use of...
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) submitted comments to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) surrounding the Commission’s Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking...
Senator Mark R. Warner (D-VA) expressed significant health data privacy concerns surrounding the Meta pixel tracking tool in a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
As previously reported, the tool has...
California Governor Gavin Newsom enacted two new bills into law that have implications for abortion data privacy within the state.
As previously reported, the California State Legislature passed...
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) conducted a review of Medicare telehealth services delivered during the pandemic, recommending that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) provide additional...
Researchers discovered third-party tracking tools on the majority of analyzed abortion clinic websites, raising data privacy concerns, according to a research letter published in JAMA Internal...
The California State Legislature passed a bill (AB 1242) that would protect abortion data privacy by preventing out-of-state law enforcement officers from executing search warrants on California-based...
A group of US House Democrats from the Committee on Energy and Commerce sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg asking for clarification on the company’s data privacy practices.
“We...
Idaho-based Kochava, a data marketing and analytics company, filed a lawsuit against the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and denied the Commission's allegations of the company’s improper...
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) wrote a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asking it to investigate Amazon’s plans to purchase primary care organization One Medical, citing health data...
Three-quarters of surveyed patients expressed significant health data privacy concerns and confusion about how their health information is handled, the American Medical Association (AMA) discovered....
In a blog post, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) expressed its intentions to enforce against improper and illegal consumer location and health data privacy practices.
Written by Kristen Cohen,...
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform sent letters to five data brokers and five health apps as part of an investigation into their reproductive health data privacy practices. Led by Rep. Carolyn...
President Biden released an “Executive Order on Protecting Access to Reproductive Healthcare Services,” which addressed patient privacy protections and stressed the importance of abortion...
Google announced plans to heighten its data privacy practices and said it would delete location history when users visit abortion clinics, domestic violence shelters, fertility centers, weight loss...
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued guidance on patient privacy and rights under the HIPAA Privacy Rule that can help patients maintain security and privacy in light of the recent Roe v. Wade...
In letters to Talkspace and BetterHelp, Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) urged the leading mental health apps to provide clarification on their patient data...
Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) sent a letter asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to launch an investigation into Apple and...
