From All We Read We Have A Similar Problem With Digital Health Apps Here In OZ.

This appeared last week: The privacy problem with health-related apps is linked to insecure coding In his next column for Digital Health, Davey Winder, explores the privacy issues surrounding health-related apps. Davey Winder 17 August, 2021 A study published in the British Medical Journal has served to confirm an inconvenient truth: mobile health apps may not be as private as you think. I ’m not convinced that’s the biggest issue with mobile health apps, truth be told. 47% of apps analysed didn’t comply with their own privacy policy The cross sectional study, authored by Gioacchino Tangari, Muhammad Ikram, Kiran Ijaz, Mohamed Ali Kaafar and Shlomo Berkovsky, set itself the obje ctive of analysing what user data is collected by health and fitness related apps on Google Play and thus reveal any associated risks to privacy. The researchers performed their in-depth analysis on a total of 15,838 global apps from the Australian store with a 8,468 non-health apps used for the bas eline... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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