It Seems That App Providers Have A Rather Relaxed Focus On Protecting Your Health Information.

This appeared a few days ago:Researchers Create Fake Profiles On 24 Health Apps And Learn Most Are Sharing Your DataEd Cara Mar 22, 2019, 10:00am Using apps to keep track of your medication or look up the symptoms of your latest mysterious illness might be convenient. But a new study out this week highlights the hidden privacy risks of plugging sensitive health information into your smartphone. Namely, that medical apps love to collect your data, but are only sometimes upfront about what they ’re doing with it and with whom they’re sharing it. Researchers in Canada, the U.S., and Australia teamed up for the study, published Wednesday in the BMJ. They tested 24 popular health-related apps used by patients and doctors in those three countries on an Android smartphone (the Google Pixel 1). Among the more popular apps were medical reference site Medscape, symptom-checker Ada, and the drug guide Drugs.com. Some of the apps reminded users when to take their prescriptions, while others... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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