PYMNTS.com June 21, 2021
More bad news came out Monday (June 21) for healthcare patients who prefer to conduct their medical business using mobile apps: your personal information is most likely either already at risk or about to be, at least according to a recent study by Macquarrie University in Australia.
This as research showed most users click “I agree” on those long user agreements chock-full of legal mumbo jumbo without always realizing exactly what they are agreeing to. Most apps and their developers build in tools that allow them to share the data they collect from users with third parties who buy it to market to those people.
This prioritization of convenience is just one of many findings also revealed in PYMNTS new...