Identity management

Screenshot: BetterHelpThe Federal Trade Commission is poised to ban the mental health app BetterHelp from sharing medical information with Facebook, Snapchat, and other online advertisers. A proposed order issued Thursday includes a $7.8 million fine and limits the ways BetterHelp can share mental health data going forward. It’s part of a new push by the FTC to reign in the internet’s rampant problems with health privacy.“When a person struggling with mental health issues reaches out for help, they do so in a moment of…

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Photo: rafapress / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock)The makers of the world’s most popular Android app are providing false or misleading information in the “privacy nutrition labels” in Google’s Play Store, according to a new study from Mozilla’s *Privacy Not Included project.The study looked at the privacy information that app developers are supposed to fill out in the Google’s Play Store and compared those details to the apps’ privacy policies. The privacy labels are supposed to give you information about an app’s data…

The doctor says this story on health data policy will fix you right up.Photo: Image Point Fr (Shutterstock)Want to save money on drugs? You could head to GoodRx.com. Type in the name of a medication,and the company will give you a coupon to use at a pharmacy. But there’s a little problem, one that GoodRx forgot to tell its customers about. Going back to at least 2017, GoodRx sent details about the medications you take to Facebook, Google, and other companies in the tech business, and used that data for targeted ads. That…

Photo: DCStockPhotography (Shutterstock)The Federal Trade Commission took historic action against the medication discount service GoodRx Wednesday, issuing a $1.5 million fine against the company for sharing data about users’ prescriptions with Facebook, Google, and others. It’s a move that could usher in a new era of health privacy in the United States.“Digital health companies and mobile apps should not cash in on consumer’s extremely sensitive and personally identifiable health information,” said Samuel Levine,…

Fourth time’s the charm.Photo: Justin Sullivan / Staff / Thomas Germain (Getty Images)Apple is famous for breaking records, and apparently it’s just as competitive when it comes to getting sued. The company was just hit with a fourth class-action lawsuit over accusations surreptitious iPhone data collection. Three of those lawsuits were filed in January alone. Impressive. In November, Gizmodo exclusively reported on research demonstrating that your iPhone collectshyper-detailed data about what you do on its apps, like…

Photo: Andrey_Popov (Shutterstock)Move over, OnlyFans, there’s a new feet-sharing game in town. At least, that’s what the plaintiffs argue in a new $25 million class-action privacy lawsuit filed against Foot Locker on Monday. I’m sorry to say that even your feet data isn’t safe.Specifically, the allegation is that Foot Locker is harvesting and distributing the details of conversations you’re having about your feet, or at least the shoes that you put on them, as reported in Bloomberg Law. Consent is sexy, whether you’re…

Photo: Sheila Fitzgerald (Shutterstock)While Chick-fil-A was serving you sandwiches, it was also serving up data to Facebook’s parent company Meta. According to a new lawsuit filed Sunday, the fast food chain did that in a way that violated one of the only federal privacy laws in the United States. Chick-fil-A has been putting out bizarre animated videos during the Christmas season over the last four years titled “The Stories of Evergreen Hills.” We’ve posted a seven-minute-long example below, which you can watch, if…

The Department of the Interior includes offices like the United States Geological Survey and the Bureau of Land Management.Image: JMiks (Shutterstock)Don’t feel bad about forgetting to change your password to something more complex—the U.S. Department of the Interior isn’t doing anybetter. A security audit published earlier this month has revealed some pretty startling password security flaws within the department, the most glaring of which is that over one-fifth of DOI passwords were easily cracked.The report was…

Photo: Silas Stein/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images (AP)The iPhone Analytics privacy setting promises that Apple won’t collect usage data if you turn it off. In early November, Gizmodo exclusively reported on research demonstrating that Apple collects that analytics data whether or not the setting is on. We reached out to Apple, but the company didn’t respond. We contacted Apple again when a California iPhone user filed a class-action lawsuit over the problem, and again when additional tests confirmed that the data includes…