Becker's Healthcare May 4, 2022
Katie Adams

Mental health apps have worse privacy policies for users than most other app categories, according to a report released May 2 by Mozilla.

Mozilla researchers analyzed the user privacy protections for 32 mental health and prayer apps, finding that 29 required a “privacy not included” warning indicating concerns about how user data is managed and shared.

“The vast majority of mental health and prayer apps are exceptionally creepy,” Jen Caltrider, Mozilla’s lead researcher for the report, told The Verge. “They track, share and capitalize on users’ most intimate personal thoughts and feelings, like moods, mental state and biometric data.”

Ms. Caltrider and...

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Topics: Apps, Digital Health, Healthcare System, Mental Health, mHealth, Patient / Consumer, Privacy / Security, Provider, Survey / Study, Technology, Trends
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