It Looks Like A Range Of Health Apps Are Not At All Respectful Of Personal Privacy.

This appeared last week:Health apps may not disclose sharing your personal informationBy Linda Carroll on Apr 26, 2019 11:59AM Black Dog Institute report finds privacy shortfall.While nine out of ten phone apps for depression and smoking cessation assessed in a recent study were found to be sharing user data with third parties, only two out of three disclosed they were doing so.Much of that data, including linkable identifiers, was shared with Google and Facebook, among others, but barely half of apps sharing data with those two giant companies told users about it, researchers report in JAMA Network Open. “If you download a mental health or smoking cessation app, there’s a high chance it will share marketing, advertising or usage tracking data with either Facebook or Google,” said the study’s lead author Kit Huckvale, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Black Dog Institute in Randwick, Aust ralia.“Unfortunately, in many cases, there’s no way to tell that this is happening and you... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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