The increasing criminalization of abortion in the U.S. is exposing major gaps in the legal protection of health information, as more health data ends up in the hands of patients rather than doctors.
have introduced bills that look to protect people's electronic data, including information collected by period-tracking apps."There really aren't any real safeguards against the ways police can weaponize this data against users, when they're actively investigating a crime in a world where abortion increasingly is criminalized," Albert Fox Cahn, founder of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, told Axios.
Under chair Lina Khan, the FTC is also coming up with new rules around commercial surveillance of people's data.HIPAA was enacted in 1996 and did not anticipate technology like period-tracking apps and other digital tools recording individuals' health information.health plans, health providers and health care clearinghouses, the last of which includes billing services and repricing companies.
Since period-tracking apps are normally accessed directly by the patient who provides their own information, the data is exempt from HIPAA rules.
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