{"id":1836229,"date":"2023-02-06T06:05:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T11:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1836229"},"modified":"2023-02-06T06:07:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T11:07:24","slug":"ftc-charges-prescription-discount-app-goodrx-for-allegedly-selling-personal-health-data-to-big-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ftc-charges-prescription-discount-app-goodrx-for-allegedly-selling-personal-health-data-to-big-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC Charges Prescription Discount App GoodRx for Allegedly Selling Personal Health Data to Big Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fftc-charges-prescription-discount-app-goodrx-for-allegedly-selling-personal-health-data-to-big-tech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1836229&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/36b5e432-5385-441a-bc34-27986497874b@news.ap_.org-1052x615-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>This episode of <em>There Ain\u2019t No Such Thing as a Free Lunch\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re among the estimated 55 million Americans who use the prescription discount app <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodrx.com\/go\/homepage-lander-sem-7?c=homepage-lander-sem-7&#038;optly_audience=%7bgeoiplogo%7d&#038;utm_campaign=127243741&#038;utm_content=7699746781&#038;utm_source=google&#038;utm_medium=cpc&#038;utm_term=kwd-54255549541&#038;gclid=Cj0KCQiAofieBhDXARIsAHTTldpqfI5eEatqjP6VBdGeoGt3ywDB44UqZofPIUoK3aIpm7tpRtpxxfwaAn7qEALw_wcB&#038;gclsrc=aw.ds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GoodRx<\/a>, have you ever wondered how the app\u2019s developer makes money? GoodRx Gold promises a lot more than you think. \u201cdeeper discounts\u201d Standard app is free for prescriptions that have a minimum of $10 monthly.<\/p>\n<p>GoodRX, then, is it just a placebo? \u201cGood Samaritan\u201d? Nope, not even close \u2014 nor should it be. But it <em>It does not seem<\/em> that fair and full disclosure should be provided, particularly when it comes to users\u2019 personal health data.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/01\/business\/goodrx-user-data-facebook-google.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> By the <em>New York Times<\/em>On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission accused a developer <a href=\"https:\/\/investors.goodrx.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GoodRx Holdings<\/a> of sharing sensitive personal health data on millions of users\u2019 medications  illnesses, with hypocritical social media companies like <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/jeffc\/2020\/10\/17\/facebook-suppresses-pro-life-ads-in-swing-states-n262683\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/kiradavis\/2021\/09\/14\/google-bans-pro-life-ads-that-promote-abortion-pill-reversal-treatment-n443063\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google<\/a>Without authorisation<\/p>\n<p>The FTC claims that GoodRx violated a federal law that required fitness trackers and apps to notify users when their data was compromised. The company agreed to settle the case. However, the company has denied the allegations and insists that it has not admitted guilt.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, why settle if you\u2019re innocent of charges\u2013other than bad publicity?<\/p>\n<p>What about? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/hipaa\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HIPAA,<\/a> The federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act The personal health information entered into apps and searched online is different from data collected by doctors or hospitals. <em>It is not covered<\/em> HIPAA is the law that regulates health information access and privacy, raising the obvious question: &#8220;Why not?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s more, via the <em>NY Times<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>GoodRx&#8217;s crackdown comes at a time of increased concern about the leakage of sensitive health information, especially in states that have severely restricted or banned abortions. And it underscores the F.T.C.\u2019s intensifying efforts to push digital health services to beef up their user privacy and security protections.<\/p>\n<p>The F.T.C.\u2019s case against GoodRx could upend widespread user-profiling and ad-targeting practices in the multibillion-dollar digital health industry, and it puts companies on notice that regulators intend to curb the nearly unfettered trade in consumers\u2019 health details.<\/p>\n[\u2026]\n<p>From 2017 to 2020, GoodRx uploaded the contact information of users who had bought certain medications, like birth control or erectile dysfunction pills, to Facebook so that the drug discount app could identify its users\u2019 social media profiles, the F.T.C. In a legal complaint.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You should know the details in the last paragraph.<\/p>\n<p>According to the complaint GoodRx also targeted users who searched for information about sexually transmitted disease. \u201cHeyDoctor,\u201d the company\u2019s telemedicine service, with ads for the site\u2019s STD testing services. FTC regulators stated that those data disclosures were contrary to public promises made by the company. \u201cnever provide advertisers any information that reveals a personal health condition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oops.<\/p>\n<p>Under the proposed settlement, which must be approved by a federal judge, GoodRx would be permanently prohibited from disclosing users\u2019 health information for marketing purposes and would pay a $1.5 million fine for breaking the law requiring the protection of personal health data. health breach notification. The FTC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/legal-library\/browse\/rules\/health-breach-notification-rule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Health Breach Notification Rule<\/a> states:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Rule requires vendors of personal information and related entities to notify consumers in the event of a breach that involves unsecured data. If a service provider to these entities suffers a breach, the entity must notify it, and in turn, consumers. The Final Rule specifies the content, timing and method of notification. In the case of certain breaches involving more than 500 people, notice must be given to the media.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If my hunches are correct, the GoodRx revelation may be the tip of the iceberg in exposing the multibillion-dollar digital healthcare industry\u2019s targeting of the personal health information of users. As I said at the top, there ain\u2019t no such thing as a free lunch, gang. Except for \u201cfree\u201d Of course, Democrat handouts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\nRedState Video: Trending\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This episode of There Ain\u2019t No Such Thing as a Free Lunch\u2026 If you\u2019re among the estimated 55 million Americans who use the prescription discount app GoodRx, have you ever wondered how the app\u2019s developer makes money? GoodRx Gold promises a lot more than you think. \u201cdeeper discounts\u201d Standard app is free for prescriptions that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1836232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[4845,9244,4035,6441,17723,6945,17724,4964,10427,17725,7333,4989],"class_list":["post-1836229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-allegedly","tag-app","tag-charges","tag-data","tag-discount","tag-ftc","tag-goodrx","tag-health","tag-personal","tag-prescription","tag-selling","tag-tech"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1836232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}