Protect New Yorkers' Private Health Information

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Today, caring for your health often means leaving a digital trail. Fitness apps, phone records, search engines, period tracking apps, and many other tools that are part of our modern lives collect and process private health information.

Numerous corporations leverage people’s sensitive health data for their own profit – often at people’s expense – and hostile states have used data against people to further their anti-LGBTQ and anti-choice crusades. The New York Health Information Privacy Act passed by the legislature will ensure New Yorkers – not big tech companies, bad actors, or government entities – maintain control over our intimate health information.

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Tell Governor Hochul to sign the Health Information Privacy Act into law today.

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Tell Governor Hochul to sign the Health Information Privacy Act into law today.

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Being part of modern society means having an online life and sharing deeply personal information with private companies. Big Tech corporations keep our data and recklessly share and monetize it with only their bottom line in mind – and no one is stopping them. These are the same corporations that stood by Trump at his inauguration and have funneled billions of dollars to his campaigns. Their allegiance is not to everyday New Yorkers.

Even caring for your health today often means leaving a digital trail. Fitness apps, phone records, search engines, period tracking apps, and many other tools that are part of our modern lives collect and process private health information.

And it’s not just corporations using our health data to harm us. Hostile states have used data against people to further their anti-LGBTQ and anti-choice crusades.

The New York Health Information Privacy Act (S.9269/A.10357) passed by the legislature will ensure New Yorkers – not big tech companies, bad actors, or government entities – have control over our intimate health information.

The risk is not theoretical. In Nebraska, a mother was charged after Meta handed over Facebook messages she had exchanged with her daughter in the process of helping her obtain an abortion. Big Tech companies have broadly shared and monetized information about app users’ HIV statuses and menstrual cycles, revealed people’s pregnancy and other health statuses before they were ready to tell their families, allowed their products to be used to track abortion seekers and to show them anti-abortion propaganda, and so much more.

New York has long been a beacon in protecting access to the healthcare New Yorkers need. Now, we must extend safeguards to people’s personal health information so they can control who has access to their private data and how they use it.

I’m counting on you to sign this bill to protect New Yorkers’ privacy and safety.

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