Privacy issues widespread with digital health apps, says BMJ
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JUNE 16, 2021
Developers of mobile health apps are comprehensively failing to safeguard the privacy of users, according to a study by researchers in Australia. The team from Macquarie University compared 15,000 free mobile health (mHealth) apps available on the Google Play store and compared their privacy practices to those found in 8,000 non-health apps, finding “serious problems with privacy and inconsistent privacy practices.” The range of apps put under scrutiny included tools for managing hea
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