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The privacy problem with health-related apps is joined at the hip to insecure coding

Posted on August 17, 2021August 17, 2021 By Davey Winder

A study published in the BMJ serves an inconvenient truth: health apps may not be as private as you think

I’m not even convinced that’s the biggest issue with mobile health apps, truth be told.

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Analysis, Opinion, Privacy Tags:Apps, Health, Privacy

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