Wearables: Cassidy Introduces Bill to Require Clear Consent Before Companies Share Users’ Health Data

by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) introduced a bill this month to protect people’s privacy and consent when they use wearables that track health data.

Cassidy’s bill, the Health Information Privacy Reform Act, would require wearable developers to explicitly notify users that HIPAA’s privacy rules won’t protect their data and offer opt-out features for users who don’t want their data shared.

The bill also calls on U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to direct the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to study the ethics and implications of paying people to share their health data for research purposes…

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