app privacy
According to the review by cybersecurity and VPN company Surfshark, 10 of the apps collected coarse location data.
While mHealth apps collect and share user data less often than other types of apps, researchers say these apps have serious privacy problems.
A security vulnerability affecting more than 3,000 mobile apps is exposing more than 4 million protected health records that include prescription details and sensitive chat messages, according to a report from mobile app security firm Appthority.
Just last week, the Consumer Electronics Association released guidelines about privacy policies for health and fitness devices.
According to a new study from Boston Children's Hospital and the University of Cologne in Germany, less than a third of health apps in the iTunes and Google Play store had any privacy policy at all in place.