Renewed push for companies to better protect your personal health data

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Whether you realize it or not, many forms of data like your browsing history, web searches and location can reveal sensitive details about your health and healthcare choices.

“Companies should be limiting their collection, limiting how long they store it for, making sure they store it safely and then having really robust mechanisms in place if law enforcement is going to ask for it or they’re going to share it a third party,” said Givens.

“The stakes were always high for sensitive health information but after the Dobbs decision the stakes for reproductive data are higher than ever before,” she said. For health-related apps, experts also believe this data should be encrypted whenever possible so only the customer can access it. the only FDA cleared birth control app, about its privacy policy.

 

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