You might want to err on the side of caution when it comes to mental health apps. Most of them are sharing your data to advertisers, a new study has discovered. ( Pixabay )
There are a lot of apps that claim to aid with mental health, doing so by providing introductions on meditation, mindful thinking, and encouraging mental exercises that might help alleviate stress or anxiety.
Mental health is of course a sensitive subject, which is why data related to it should be protected at all costs. A new study suggests that isn't so. Apparently, 29 out of 36 mental health apps were sharing data for advertising or analytics to Facebook or Google, and many of them weren't disclosing that data-sharing to users.
Only six out of 12 Facebook-linked apps informed users what was happening, while only 12 out of 28 Google-linked apps did, as well. Of the entire mental health app pool, only 25 included policies laying out how they used data in any form, while 16 detailed secondary uses.
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