Apple health tracking

Apple bans developers from selling HealthKit data to ad platforms

By Brian Dolan 08:32 am September 2, 2014

Late last week the Financial Times (sub. req.) reported that Apple had modified its iOS developer license agreement, its rules for developers that create apps for its devices, to ban developers from selling health data collected by HealthKit. The company wrote that developers must “not sell an end-user’s health information collected through the HealthKit API to advertising platforms, data brokers...

In-Depth: What Apple's Health app tracks and what it forgot to include

By Brian Dolan 12:30 pm June 13, 2014

On Wednesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration quietly updated its list of mobile medical applications that it would not regulate. It added a description of an app that fairly well describes Apple's recently announced Health app. The addition comes just a day after the FDA responded to a three-month old Freedom of Information Act request from a tech publication about its meeting with Apple...