Fertility-tracking app Premom, owned by Easy Healthcare, came under fire by the Federal Trade Commission, which alleged the company shared consumers' health data with third parties like Google, AppsFlyer and two China-based analytics and marketing firms for advertising purposes without user consent.
Premom is a free app that offers fertility tracking tools, including period and ovulation tracking...
The Federal Trade Commission has started cracking down on digital health companies for allegedly sharing consumers' health data for advertising purposes.
Last month, the agency said GoodRx had shared personal health information with third parties like Google and Facebook. The company, best known for its drug-cost transparency tools, agreed to pay a $1.5 million fine to settle the case, but...
The Federal Trade Commission has fined online therapy company BetterHelp $7.8 million for allegedly sharing consumer data with third parties like Facebook and Snapchat for advertising purposes.
The proposed order – the second recent action by the FTC regarding data sharing by a digital health company – would also ban BetterHelp from disclosing health data for advertising. The agency said this is...
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday alleged drug-cost and telehealth platform GoodRx shared consumers' personal health information with third parties like Google and Facebook.
According to the FTC's complaint, GoodRx provided information about its users' prescription medications and health conditions for advertising purposes, like targeting users with health-related ads on Facebook based on...
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Amazon's $3.9 billion acquisition of primary care provider One Medical.
According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, One Medical parent 1Life Healthcare and Amazon both received requests from the FTC for more information regarding the deal on Sept. 2. The planned acquisition was first announced in late July.
In the filing, 1Life...
Period and fertility-tracking-app maker Flo Health has settled with the Federal Trade Commission regarding a complaint alleging improper disclosure of sensitive user data to third-party marketing and analytics services from Facebook, Google and others, the agency announced today.
The FTC's complaint listed several ways in which Flo deceived its users. These included messaging from the company...
Breathometer, the Mark Cuban-backed digital health startup that makes a smartphone-connected oral health sensor, has settled a suit with the Federal Trade Commission over its first product, a smartphone-connected breathalyzer. According to the terms of the settlement, Breathometer will have to offer a full refund to customers who bought the device.
The FTC says that it discovered serious accuracy...
Newport Beach, California-based AuraLabs has agreed to settle charges from the Federal Trade Commission over claims that their Instant Blood Pressure app was accurate and could even replace traditional blood pressure cuffs. Additionally, AuraLabs Founder and CEO Ryan Archdeacon was also accused of leaving five-star positive reviews of Instant Blood Pressure in app stores without disclosing his...
Teladoc's antitrust lawsuit against the Texas Medical Board (TMB) is still a long way from over, but an amicus curie brief filed this morning in the Fifth Circuit Court shows that the telemedicine company has friends in high places: namely, the US Federal Trade Commission.
A quick refresher: Teladoc sued the TMB in state court way back in April 2015, alleging that because the board was made up of...
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August 17, 2016
On Tuesday, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission approved a final order with EHR vendor Practice Fusion that will consent to a 20-year privacy practice order, stemming from its highly-publicized privacy scandal.
The settlement was first announced in June, and after a 30-day comment period, the final order was unanimously approved, 3-0.
Practice Fusion was charged with soliciting reviews from...
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