{"id":222029,"date":"2026-03-10T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/senators-demand-answers-on-ai-and-health-data-privacy-as-regulatory-gaps-widen\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T14:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:05:09","slug":"senators-demand-answers-on-ai-and-health-data-privacy-as-regulatory-gaps-widen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/senators-demand-answers-on-ai-and-health-data-privacy-as-regulatory-gaps-widen\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators Demand Answers on AI and Health Data Privacy as Regulatory Gaps Widen\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/cpi-posts\/senators-demand-answers-on-ai-and-health-data-privacy-as-regulatory-gaps-widen\/\">Senators Demand Answers on AI and Health Data Privacy as Regulatory Gaps Widen\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/cpi-posts\/senators-demand-answers-on-ai-and-health-data-privacy-as-regulatory-gaps-widen\/\">https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/cpi-posts\/senators-demand-answers-on-ai-and-health-data-privacy-as-regulatory-gaps-widen\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-10 13:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pymnts.com\">www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every day, millions of Americans strap on fitness trackers, log their meals in nutrition apps, or upload their DNA to genetic testing sites. They do it voluntarily, usually without reading the fine print. And almost none of it is covered by the same privacy rules that govern their doctors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Now, as artificial intelligence supercharges what companies can do with that data, a growing number of lawmakers are asking a pointed question: should it be?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The issue came to a head in Washington last week,\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">according to\u00a0Nextgov\/FCW<\/span>, which reported\u00a0on\u00a0a Senate Health, Education,\u00a0Labor\u00a0and Pensions Committee hearing held\u00a0last week. Senators from both parties raised concerns about the lack of federal guardrails around AI-powered health tools that\u00a0operate\u00a0outside the healthcare system and therefore outside the reach of HIPAA, the main U.S. law protecting medical privacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The distinction\u00a0is important. A hospital or your doctor\u2019s office must follow strict rules about how your health information is stored, shared, and sold. But a fitness app you download or a wearable device you buy at a consumer electronics store? Different\u00a0story. Those products\u00a0do not\u00a0have to play by the same rules even if\u00a0they are\u00a0collecting the same sensitive data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Committee\u00a0chairman\u00a0Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) laid out the stakes in stark terms, raising the possibility that genetic data shared with a third-party AI tool could eventually be used to discriminate against a person\u2019s family members in ways that skirt existing legal protections.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d love to be your preferred source for news.<\/p>\n<p>Please add us to your preferred sources list so our news, data and interviews show up in your feed. Thanks!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI do think\u00a0there\u2019s\u00a0some consumer safeguards that should be implemented, like a box that pops up, \u2018Your data uploaded will be boom-boom-boom, now accessible for marketing,\u2019 unless you say not,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Cassidy\u2019s concern illustrates a gap that regulators have&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/cpi-posts\/senators-demand-answers-on-ai-and-health-data-privacy-as-regulatory-gaps-widen\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators Demand Answers on AI and Health Data Privacy as Regulatory Gaps Widen\u00a0 https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/cpi-posts\/senators-demand-answers-on-ai-and-health-data-privacy-as-regulatory-gaps-widen\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/acquisition-healthcare-data-Definitive-Healthcare-Populi.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222031,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222029\/revisions\/222031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}