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Personal health information that patients divulge to digital medical companies and on social media is used to generate targeted ads.

Federated learning allows AIs to train on patient data that never leaves local sites, but it’s not immune to AI bias and privacy challenges.

Perversely patient-centric? How data brokers figure out you’re pregnant. From PR Week

Privacy experts say data aggregators should think twice about the predatory practices their data could enable.

Period-tracking apps are the tip of the post-Roe privacy iceberg. From PR Week

Prosecutors in states where abortion is now illegal have access to troves of personal data.

To answer the privacy question posed in the headline in a couple of words: not very. Expect a flurry of litigation involving no-choice and pro-choice states and the feds on issues of extraterritoriality, enforcement, and evidence.

Most patients have limited control over their medical records, and those records can be used against people suspected of having an abortion. Records are hard to modify and can move from place to place without consent.

With Roe v. Wade overturned, patients may wonder if federal law shields reproductive health data from state law enforcement. The answer is no.

Federal regulations allowing online prescribing for drugs to treat people addicted to opioids could soon lapse, leaving an uncertain path forward for thousands of patients turning to virtual treatment and the digital health companies themselves.