Data Brokers Are Selling Long Lists of People With Depression and Anxiety
But there are plenty of ways you give away your medical secrets when you aren’t interacting with health care providers and insurance companies. Mental health apps, visits to sites like WebMD, and even prescription discount
Kim contacted 37 data brokers asking to buy mental health data. 26 wrote back, and ultimately 11 of them were willing to sell the data. The study doesn’t name any data brokers due to confidentiality agreements the brokers asked for during Kim’s discussions.One data broker was so eager that sales representatives repeatedly called Kim’s phone when she was slow to respond to emails.
The data brokers also pair such data with other information like social security numbers, credit scores, net worth, unrelated retail purchases, details about pets and children in the house, exercise habits, criminal records, and religion .This isn’t the first time the data broker business was caught selling sensitive health information. Just after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a
The Federal Trade Commission just took groundbreaking steps to address our rampant health privacy problems, but. At the beginning of February, the FTC reached a settlement with GoodRx, fining the company $1.5 million for sending users’ prescription data to Google and Meta . Essentially, the settlement is an attempt to declare that it’s illegal to use health data for advertising without explicit consent.t’s not clear whether that will hold up in the long run.
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