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$3.5M MDLive data privacy class action settlement

Top Class Actions · · International · Enforcement

MDLive, a telehealth company, has agreed to a $3.5 million settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit over alleged data privacy violations.

Why this matters: Telehealth is not like shopping online. People share symptoms, diagnoses, and mental health details because they have to. When a platform mishandles that data, the harm is personal in a way that a leaked email address is not. A $3.5 million settlement sounds large until you divide it among a class of patients. The money matters less than whether MDLive changed anything. Health data deserves stronger defaults, not litigation as the main enforcement mechanism.

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