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Sight unseen behind the scenes PKI plays an essential role in safeguarding medical information through advanced authentication and encryption methods.

What is PKI?

PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) is a security and identity framework that uses digital keys and certificates for digital identity, authentication, authorization, encryption, access, and digital signatures to help ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity of health information.

The FTC recently settled two “First-of-Its-Kind” civil penalty cases. Both cases involved consumer health apps that disclosed and/or sold for advertising purposes consumer personal health information without the consumers’ written consent. Further, in both cases, the FTC found