A settlement over GoodRx sharing info with Google and Facebook is poised to be a sea change for health data.
and said if you share health data without consent, the commission is going to call that a data breach. The GoodRx case is proof the agencycourt, Mikel said
. “The FTC is taking it upon itself to step in and assert standards without really having any statutory reason to do so.”settlement instead of a court battle, the actionAdvertisement$1.5 million dollars, a measly. It’s possible the FTC lowered the bill to get GoodRx to sign on to a settlement the government could use as precedent in future battles. An FTC official denied that theory when reached for comments bipartisan commissioners if this was some kind of lefty power grab.
“While some have said they would have wanted a higher penalty, this cost sets the bar for future actions.,” said Phyllis Marcus, who works on FTC compliance at the law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth. “This enforcement has greater impacts on other companies and could serve as a basis for the FTC to build a record for particular aspects.
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