A complaint by the Federal Trade Commission accuses popular fertility tracking app Premom of illegally sharing private data.
In the complaint, the agency says the app, developed by Easy Healthcare, has been sharing private information with Google and Chinese analytic companies since 2018. Easy Healthcare shared data about users’ reproductive health, pregnancy status and other health-related information that could identify users.
Easy Healthcare also apparently shared identifiable information, like geolocation data, with Chinese analytic companies Jiguang and Umeng. The company did so knowing that the two firms would use the data for their own business purposes or transfer it to another third party. “We will vigorously enforce the Health Breach Notification Rule to defend consumer’s health data from exploitation. Companies collecting this information should be aware that the FTC will not tolerate health privacy abuses,” Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection Sam Levine said.
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