Female health monitoring apps are putting women at risk by “coercing” them into disclosing – and then poorly handling – highly sensitive data, according to new research.
“While female health apps are vital to the management of women’s health worldwide, their benefits are currently being undermined by privacy and safety issues,” the lead author of the study, Dr Ruba Abu-Salma, from King’s College London, told the BBC.
“Mismanaging or leaking reproductive health data can lead to dire consequences, with blackmail, discrimination, and violence being among the worst,” she added.
The research – which was was carried out jointly by King’s and University College London – looked at the most popular apps downloaded from Google Play.
from BBC – https://trl.ca/335