Online medical bill site tricked people to hand over health records

  • 8 December 2014
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by Lisa Vaas on December 8, 2014
 
 


 
How do you populate a new website with existing consumers' medical records?
One way is to tuck away the authorization text where consumers don't even realize they're signing it, though the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) might well come a-knocking if you do!
According to the FTC, in the case of PaymentsMD, you get that data by setting up authorizations in tiny windows on the billing site, each of which displays a meager six lines of a far lengthier text that, when consumers click the box, grants the go-ahead for your data grab.
Oh, and don't forget to make it even easier to weasel away that data by putting a single box on the front page. Anybody who clicks that one box accepts all of the four authorizations at once.
 
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