MobiHealth News May 25, 2022
According to the review by cybersecurity and VPN company Surfshark, 10 of the apps collected coarse location data.
Nearly half of period-tracking apps studied used or shared data for third-party advertising, according to an analysis by cybersecurity and VPN company Surfshark.
The review examined 20 popular apps from the Apple App Store and ranked each app depending on the amount and sensitivity of the information they collect. For instance, an app received one point for data collected that isn’t linked to a user’s identity, like app crash information, and three points for data that could track users across other websites, like user ID. It also added points for collecting data for third-party advertising.
Nine shared data for advertising,...
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