As the country braces for the likely overturning of Roe, Sen. Elizabeth Warren has introduced a bill that would ban data firms from selling abortion clinic patients’ health data.
that health data collected from period tracking apps could also put people at risk, as the apps can tell when a period is late and a person could be pregnant. Such data isn’t protected under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act , experts say, as long as the app is free to use.
Data and privacy experts have endorsed the bill, emphasizing that the largely unregulated data sale industry poses risks to everyone. “Health and location data are incredibly sensitive and can be used for a range of harms, from profiling and exploiting consumers to spying on citizens without warrants to carrying out stalking and violence,” Justin Sherman, research lead of Duke University’s Data Brokerage Project, said in a statement. “Companies should not be allowed to freely buy and sell Americans’ health and location data, on the open market, with virtually no restrictions.
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