Congress to Investigate Data Brokers and Period Tracking Apps
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/m7geb4/congress-to-investigate-data-brokers-and-period-tracking-apps
On Friday, the House Oversight Committee announced it is investigating the privacy of reproductive health data, and has specifically sent letters demanding more information from data brokers and companies that manage period tracking apps.
The investigation comes directly in response to Motherboard’s recent findings that multiple location data firms were offering information related to visitors of Planned Parenthood abortion clinics. In one of those cases, Motherboard was able to buy a week's worth of data for $160 from a company called SafeGraph. The company stopped the sale of this data after Motherboard’s report.