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The FTC, Fertility App Premom, and Sharing Consumer Health Data
The FTC shows again that some companies widely share Americans’ health data—and Congress needs to do more.
Justin Sherman is a contributing editor at Lawfare. He is also the founder and CEO of Global Cyber Strategies, a Washington, DC-based research and advisory firm; a senior fellow at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, where he runs its research project on data brokerage; and a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council.
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The FTC shows again that some companies widely share Americans’ health data—and Congress needs to do more.
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