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Health and quasi-medical apps are data harvesting – Gadgetguy.com.au
Over 100 free and paid health, fitness, fertility, diet, sleep, yoga, and cycling apps collect way more data than they need to do the job.
Over 100 free and paid Health and quasi-medical apps on the Apple App Store were analysed for their data-harvesting. For the most part, they collect way more data than they need to do the job. These included health, fitness, fertility, diet, sleep, yoga, and cycling apps.
Now it is not just Apple Google Play also has many of these apps. The research is particularly timely in light of Apple’s iOS update that requires you to give permissions on an app-by-app basis.
It focused on the privacy policies…
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