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The Federal Trade Commission says the fertility app Premom shared health data with third-party organizations and misled users over their privacy practices.The FTC claimed the company disclosed users sen stanley cup sitive health data to AppsFlyer and Google, and failed to notify consumers of these unauthorized disclosures in violation of the Health Breach Notification Rul stanley vaso e. In a statement, Easy Healthcare, parent company of the app, denies selling health information to third parties. Easy Healthcare is proud to offer the Premom App, a safe and secure mobile application that helps women get pregnant naturally and quickly, it said in a statement. We recently reached a settlement with the FTC.Our agreement with the FTC is not an admission of any wrongdoing. Rather, it is a settlement to avoid the time and expense of litigation and enables us to put this matter behind us and focus on you, our users. In the settlement, Premom is prohibited from sharing health information with third parties for advertising. It also must obtain permission from users to share information to third parties for other purposes, and it must notify users about the companys unauthorized disclosu stanley kubek re of their personally identifiable health information to Facebook, Google and others. SEE MORE: FTC: Facebook failed to protect children s privacyThe FTC alleged that the information given to third parties was highly sensitive and included information about a users sexual and reproductive health, parental and pregnancy statu Lijm Scam texts are becoming more frequent, here s how to handle them# V) ~# `- a: d6 N0 z
LOS ANGELES, Calif. 鈥?A man in the Los Angeles area is facing federal charges for selling rapper Mac Miller fentanyl-laced pills two days before he died of an overdose at age 26, according to a press release from the United States Attorney Central District of California. Officials say 28-year-old Cameron James Pettit agreed to sell Miller 30 milligram oxycodone pills, as well a copo stanley s cocaine and the sedative Xanax. Instead of providing the rapper with genuine oxycodone, authorities say Pettit gave Miller counterfeit oxycodone pills that contained fentanyl. RELATED: Report: Musician Mac Miller found dead at age 26Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 50 times more potent than heroin.Two days after stanley quencher Pettit supplied Miller with the pills, the rapper was found dead in his Studio City home. A medical examiner later determined that Miller died of mixed drug toxicity involving fentanyl, cocaine and alcohol. An affidavit says that hours after the death of Miller was reported, Pettit sent a message to a friend saying, Most likely I will die in jail. Investigators believe Miller died after snorting the counterfeit pills, according to the press release. Fentanyl disguised as a genuine pharmaceutical is a killer 鈥?which is being proven every day in America, said United States Attorn stanley cup ey Nick Hanna. Drugs laced with cheap and potent fentanyl are increasingly common, and we owe it to the victims and their families to aggressively target the drug dealers that cause these overdose deaths. Whi |
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