GoodRx put user privacy at risk
If you’re among the people who used GoodRx to get discounts on your medications, the prescription shopping website might’ve done more than what you bargained for. GoodRx sent your personal health data to tech companies like Meta and Google for advertising purposes as well as the data brokers.
FTC charged GoodRx
The FTC recently announced that GoodRx has agreed to pay a $1.5 million fine and implement various measures to ensure that the company no longer sends health data for advertising purposes. GoodRx has agreed that it will take user consent before sharing health data for other purposes, and also to get in touch with the third parties with whom it earlier shared sensitive info to delete that data.
Consumer Reports said, “to determine how GoodRx shares data, we monitored traffic using a data packet-capturing tool to observe the company’s Android mobile app and website as we searched for deals on a number of prescription medicatio
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