Privacy concerns arise over fertility app's data sharing practices.

The US Federal Trade Commission reached a settlement with fertility tracking app Premom over charges that it shared users' sensitive personal and health data, including pregnancy status, with third parties without consent. Google is also facing legal action over claims that it unlawfully collects health data, including searches related to abortion, on third-party websites. A Midwest group used geofencing to send targeted anti-abortion ads to mobile phones belonging to people who visited some Planned Parenthood clinics. Social media monitoring firm Dataminr helped the US Marshals Service surveil abortion rights advocates by flagging protest organizers' and attendees' Twitter posts and sharing them with the federal law enforcement agency.
- Guess who is collecting and sharing abortion-related data? The Register
- Fertility app slapped $ 200,000 for leaking customer's health data in US ETHealthWorld
- Fertility app Premom gave users' health data to third parties, FTC says MSNBC
- Fertility app Premom to pay $200K after sharing sensitive user data The Hill
- Fertility app used by 500k women sold private data to shady firms Daily Mail
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