9 out of 10 mobile health apps collect and track user data according to a new international study.
The research published by the British Medical Journal conducted an in-depth analysis of more than 20,000 mobile personal health apps in the Play Store, some of which required the disclosure of highly sensitive personal information.
88% of them used cookies to track user activity while 28% of them had no privacy statements on Google Play about the information being collected.
But only 4% of them transferred user data to third parties. Despite these statistics only 1.3% of users were concerned about privacy in the ratings they left.
The report also cited the GDPR as an initiative which has significantly improved transparency about applications, data collection and distribution practices to third parties. / PCWorld Albanian
