How to Protect Your Health Data

Your personal information can be stolen. Our tips will help keep it safe.

By Dena B. Mendelsohn

February 5, 2020

A s you browse the internet or make online purchases, a variety of companies may be collecting information about you—including data about your health.

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Editor’s Note: A version of this article also appeared in the March 2020 issue of Consumer Reports On Health.

Dena B. Mendelsohn

Based in Consumer Reports' West Coast office, I serve as senior policy counsel for CR, focusing on privacy and healthcare issues that affect consumers in California and nationwide. My work focuses on technology and the consumer's right to privacy, security, control, and transparency, particularly regarding their health information. A third-generation reader of Consumer Reports, I'm also the person who reads the emergency evacuation pamphlet when I'm sitting in the exit row.