Telehealth companies keep exposing their customers’ medical data. What should they do?
https://apnews.com/article/telehealth-prescription-glp1-ftc-hims-e6821ac2ff88d76bbfe71c08ad21cc3a
"Since the COVID-19 pandemic, scores of online health services have launched…
Increasingly, though, government regulators are accusing these companies of deceptive, unethical business practices, including disclosing their customers’ health data, signing them up for hard-to-cancel subscriptions and bypassing real-time consultations with doctors."
#USA #Privacy #Telehealth #Healthcare
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