{"id":12137,"date":"2021-06-17T02:47:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T02:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=12137"},"modified":"2021-06-17T02:47:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T02:47:23","slug":"many-health-apps-pose-privacy-risk-fail-to-adequately-inform-users-of-data-polices-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=12137","title":{"rendered":"Many health apps pose privacy risk, fail to adequately inform users of data polices, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostHealth and fitness apps, which help mobile-phone users track everything from calorie intake to menstruation dates, can access and share personal data in a way that\u2019s concerning, according to a study published in the British Medical Journal.The analysis of more than 20,000 apps found that inadequate privacy disclosures for many of them prevented users from making informed choices about their data. One third could collect user email addresses and many more transmitted data to third parties such\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3137597\/many-health-apps-pose-privacy-risk-fail-adequately-inform-users?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostHealth and fitness apps, which help mobile-phone users track everything from calorie intake to menstruation dates, can access and share personal data in a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}