The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reached out to Apple to confirm that the health data collected by Apple's smartwatch, called Apple Watch, will not be sold to third parties, according to a report from Reuters.
Reuters explains that in the past few months, Apple representatives have met with FTC officials on multiple occasions to discuss the privacy issues surrounding the Apple Watch.
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According to a new study from Boston Children's Hospital and the University of Cologne in Germany, less than a third of health apps in the iTunes and Google Play store had any privacy policy at all in place.
"Our findings show that currently mHealth developers often fail to provide app privacy policies," study authors wrote. "The privacy policies that are available do not make information privacy...
Recently, MobiHealthNews wrote about the number of fitness app installs expected to grow to 248 million in 2017 from 156 million in 2012, a 60 percent rise. While more consumers are downloading health apps, one research firm suggests app users should be cautious about what personal information they're volunteering when they use those apps.
This week, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse released a study...
