The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on April 26, 2024, that a final rule modifying its Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR) adopted on a 3-2 vote along party lines. The final rule caps the FTC’s transformation of the HBNR into a broad privacy and data breach notice rule widely applicable to health and wellness apps and websites from a traditional cybersecurity data breach notice rule applicable to a limited set of companies that offer online personal health record repositories or applications and those companies’ service providers.

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