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The Business Center provides plain-language guidance to help businesses understand their responsibilities and comply with the law.

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Complying with FTC’s Health Breach Notification Rule

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As more consumers use health apps and connected devices like fitness trackers, information about our health is increasingly collected and shared online. For most hospitals, doctors’ offices, and...
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Data Breach Response: A Guide for Business

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You just learned that your business experienced a data breach. Whether hackers took personal information from your corporate server, an insider stole customer information, or information was...
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Disposing of Consumer Report Information? Rule Tells How

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In an effort to protect the privacy of consumer information and reduce the risk of fraud and identity theft, a federal rule is requires businesses to take appropriate measures to dispose of sensitive...
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FTC Safeguards Rule: What Your Business Needs to Know

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As the name suggests, the purpose of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission’s Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information – the Safeguards Rule, for short – is to ensure that entities covered by the Rule...
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Health Breach Notification Rule: The Basics for Business

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Does your business or organization have a mobile app, website, Internet-connected device or similar technology that holds consumers’ health information? Do you provide products or services or send or...
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Mobile Health App Developers: FTC Best Practices

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Start with Security: A Guide for Business offers tips for any business wanting to implement sound data security. For health app developers, here’s tailored advice and additional questions to ask...
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Mobile Health App Interactive Tool

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Privacy and security are important considerations for any app—and especially apps that collect and share consumers’ health information. As you design, market, and distribute your mobile health app...