Sahar Nicolette  |  January 22, 2021

Category: Legal News

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Fertility app Premom is facing a class action lawsuit over sharing users' private data.

A fertility app is sending users’ private information to Chinese companies without their permission, a class action lawsuit claims.

Illinois based company Easy Healthcare Corporation, the developer of fertility app Premom, is facing claims that the company shared personal information and location data with at least three Chinese data-collectors, according to a class action lawsuit filed in Illinois federal court on Thursday.

Virginia-based plaintiff, “Jane Doe”, says that Easy Healthcare Corporation violated users’ rights and committed fraud by breaching the app’s terms of service and sharing users’ information with third party entities without their knowledge or authorization. 

Easy Healthcare, an ecommerce company that has established itself as an on-line dominant market provider of home and workplace healthcare products including pregnancy tests, thermometers, drug tests, and so on, created app Premom for users to easily track their ovulation cycle. The app is free to download and provides a period calendar that claims to help women get pregnant “sooner and naturally,” according to the Premom website. Premom claims to be one of the most popular fertility apps among Android and iOs users. 

Users’ Terms of Service Breached By Fertility App 

The class action lawsuit claims that Easy Healthcare’s sharing of users’ private data is in direct breach of the Premom’s terms of service, which state that the company is dedicated to protecting any personal information that “may be collected through our site or mobile application and to ensuring that you are fully informed as to how your personal information will be used.”

The lawsuit seeks financial compensation to resolve the damages caused by the unlawful sharing of users’ private data and for Easy Healthcare’s alleged breach of contract, fraud and violation of Illinois’ Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. The suit also asks for an injunction to prevent the company from sharing any of Premom’s users’ private data with third party entities without clear prior consent.

Plaintiff Jane Doe claims that in order to remedy the damages associated with sharing users’ personal data, all devices and routers need to be replaced. This includes the costs associated with replacing users’ personal devices where the apps were downloaded to, as well as the costs of replacing users’ personal routers, which Doe says would cost approximately $1700 for the replacement of her personal devices.

Doe estimates that the proposed class could include at least 50,000 users, according to the complaint. 

A range of companies have been in hot water recently for sharing users’ personal information with Chinese companies. A proposed class action lawsuit filed by a group of Californians claims that social messaging app WeChat cooperates with the Chinese government and censors speech.

Do you use a fertility app such as Premom? Does this lawsuit make you think twice about using these kinds of apps? Let us know in the comments below. 

Doe is represented by Brendan J. Donelon and Daniel W. Craig of Donelon PC and Thomas M. Ryan of the Law Offices of Thomas M. Ryan PC.

Counsel information for Easy Healthcare was not immediately available. 

The Fertility App Privacy Breach Lawsuit is Doe v. Easy Healthcare Corp., case number 1:21-cv-00349, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. 

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5 thoughts onFertility App Users Demand Retribution After Unlawful Sharing of Private Data

  1. Meranda Rowberry says:

    I want retribution

  2. Meranda Rowberry says:

    I used this app during my pregnancy

  3. MAGGIE SHELTON says:

    Please Add Me

  4. Sylvia Smith says:

    please add me ive used this app to track ovulation

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