Have you considered your privacy rights when using birth control apps?
Have you considered your privacy rights when using birth control apps?
With a May 2024 update from the FTC on a pregnancy app that shared users’ sensitive information
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Abstract from the article titled, "Before Using Birth Control Apps Consider Your Privacy" posted on Wired.com: "Natural Cycles’ privacy policy states that in using the app each user grants the company and any of its partners broad rights to “use, reproduce, distribute, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, communicate to the public, and otherwise utilize and exploit a user's anonymized information.”
Assessment of the Data Sharing and Privacy Practices of Smartphone Apps for Depression and Smoking Cessation
Assessment of the Data Sharing and Privacy Practices of Smartphone Apps for Depression and Smoking Cessation
An article from the JAMA Open Network
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An article posted in the Journal of the American Medical Association identified that some of the highest-ranking health apps used to assist people with mental health conditions (e.g. depression) and smoking cessation were sharing data with Facebook and Google services and that only a third disclosed such practices.