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Developer of Popular Women s Fertility-Tracking App Settles FTC Allegations that It Misled Consumers About the Disclosure of their Health Data

The developer of a period and fertility-tracking app used by more than 100 million consumers has settled Federal Trade Commission allegations that the company shared the health information of users with outside data analytics providers after promising that such information would be kept private. The proposed settlement requires Flo Health, Inc. to, among other things, obtain an independent review of its privacy practices and get app users’ consent before sharing their health information.  “Apps that collect, use, and share sensitive health information can provide valuable services, but consumers need to be able to trust these apps,” said Andrew Smith, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. “We are looking closely at whether developers of health apps are keeping their promises and handling sensitive health information responsibly.”

Federal Trade Commission Releases Commentary on Vertical Merger Enforcement | Troutman Pepper

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Split along partisan lines, the Federal Trade Commission (Commission) voted last week to issue Commentary on Vertical Merger Enforcement (Commentary). The Commentary intends to “provide[] greater transparency to the public regarding [the Commission’s] analysis of vertical mergers” by collecting in a single document the Commission’s past vertical merger cases and summarizing how it has analyzed potential anticompetitive effects in vertical transactions. [1] The two Democratic commissioners dissented here just as they had in June 2020, with respect to the issuance of the Vertical Merger Guidelines (Guidelines) themselves. [2] Here, the dissenting commissioners caution against relying on the past to assess how the agency will, in the future, treat transactions that include a non-horizontal element, [3] while the Republican majority points out that the Democrats dissent “not because they quibble with the faithfulnes

FTC Seeks Privacy Information from Social Media and Video Streaming Companies | Ballard Spahr LLP

On December 14, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced in a press release that it is issuing orders under the FTC’s authority in Section 6(b) of the FTC Act to the following nine social media and video streaming companies: Amazon.com, Inc., ByteDance Ltd. (which operates the short video service TikTok), Discord Inc., Facebook, Inc., Reddit, Inc., Snap Inc., Twitter, Inc., WhatsApp Inc., and You Tube LLC. The FTC made publicly available samples of the order sent to each company. Specifically, the FTC is seeking privacy policies, procedures, and practices related to: how social media and video streaming services collect, use, track, estimate, or derive personal and demographic information;

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