FTC's Health Privacy Efforts Raise Specter of Litigation
Law360
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Melissa Crespo spoke to Law360 about the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposing changes to its Health Breach Notification Rule that include clarifying that the rule applies to health apps and other similar technologies that collect or use consumers’ health information.
“The proposed rulemaking leaves absolutely no room for confusion for entities that are trying to grapple with whether they are subject to the rule and would give more teeth to the 2021 policy statement,” Melissa said. “For those that didn’t necessarily pay attention to the FTC’s signals that it’s going to start using the health breach notification rule, this is obviously the biggest flag the commission could have waved to say, ‘You better have your practices in order.’”
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