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Mobile Health App Developers: FTC Best Practices

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Start with Security: A Guide for Business offers tips for any business wanting to implement sound data security. For health app developers, here’s tailored advice and additional questions to ask...
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Mobile Health App Interactive Tool

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Privacy and security are important considerations for any app—and especially apps that collect and share consumers’ health information. As you design, market, and distribute your mobile health app...
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Start with Security: A Guide for Business

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Start with security Control access to data sensibly Require secure passwords and authentication Store sensitive personal information securely and protect it during transmission Segment your network...
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Stick with Security: A Business Blog Series

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For businesses, the key to safeguarding sensitive information is to start with security. The Start with Security brochure and videos released in 2015 offer practical tips to take from the FTC ’s 60+...
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Using Consumer Reports: What Employers Need to Know

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Your company has job vacancies to fill. You're also thinking about promoting some employees from within the company. You've winnowed down the stack of applications and resumes and want to run...
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Using Consumer Reports: What Landlords Need to Know

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As a landlord – or property manager or other housing provider – you evaluate housing applications or decide whether to renew a current tenant’s lease. You might decide to run a tenant background check...