@article{2ad05f5ac1434a2784f69ae4c5e8a39f,
title = "The Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Protections for Mobile Health Apps",
abstract = "The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has an important role to play in the governmental oversight of mobile health apps, ensuring consumer protections from unfair and deceptive trade practices and curtailing anti-competitive methods. The FTC{\textquoteright}s consumer protection structure and authority is outlined before reviewing the recent FTC enforcement activities taken on behalf of consumers and against developers of mhealth apps. The article concludes with identification of some challenges for the FTC and modest recommendations for strengthening the consumer protections it provides.",
author = "Wagner, {Jennifer K.}",
note = "Funding Information: Research on this article was funded by the following grant: Addressing ELS Issues in Unregulated Health Research Using Mobile Devices, Federal Award Identification Number (FAIN) 1R01CA20738-01A1, National Cancer Institute, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), and Office of Science Policy and Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research in the Office of the Director (OD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Mark A. Rothstein and John T. Wilbanks, Principal Investigators. Funding Information: The author acknowledges with gratitude Mark Rothstein and John Wilbanks (PIs) for organizing the MobileELSI project and working group and further thanks the investigators for the opportunity to participate in the working group meetings. The content of this article is the author?s responsibility and might not represent the official views of the author?s funding sources, employers, clients, or any other person or entity. The author is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Sage Bionetworks and has been part of a Geisinger and AstraZeneca collaboration to develop an mHealth app. Research on this article was funded by the following grant: Addressing ELS Issues in Unregulated Health Research Using Mobile Devices, Federal Award Identification Number (FAIN) 1R01CA20738-01A1, National Cancer Institute, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), and Office of Science Policy and Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research in the Office of the Director (OD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Mark A. Rothstein and John T. Wilbanks, Principal Investigators. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics.",
year = "2020",
month = mar,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1177/1073110520917035",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "48",
pages = "103--114",
journal = "Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics",
issn = "1073-1105",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Inc.",
number = "1_suppl",
}