The company allegedly promised to keep users' medical info private, but instead sold it to third-party advertisers.
announced on Wednesday, the FTC claims GoodRx categorically mishandled users’ personal medical information, including users’ prescriptions and health conditions, as far back as 2017.
Despite explicitly vowing it “would never share personal health information with advertisers or other third parties,” says the FTC, GoodRx instead sold this data to advertising companies and platforms including Google, Facebook, Branch, and Twilio to craft personalized ads.In August 2019, for example, the FTC detailed how GoodRx assembled lists of users who purchased specific medications, then uploaded their emails, phone numbers, and mobile ad IDs to Facebook.
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