When the relationship was terminated, Farley blamed PFC for not informing the city it had created a for-profit arm nor that it had updated its terms of service, allowing people s personal data collected on its website to be sold. Both of these were issues were first reported on by the Inquirer. Farley also was bothered by the group s abrupt discontinuation of some COVID-19 testing services that had been run in partnership with the city for months, as reported on by WHYY.
DeSantis report said there were red flags that should have prevented PFC from becoming the city s leading vaccine partner, had there been greater oversight and communication of these issues to department leadership about the risks they represented.