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HIPAA Times: Viral warning about period-tracking apps raises privacy concerns

November 13, 2024

Alan Butler, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), also weighed in: “Typically, apps that individuals might use to track fertility or for other personal health uses that are not billed as part of a medical service, which most of them are not, are not covered under HIPAA.” 

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