As a further postscript to our recent post on mHealth apps, the Financial Times has just published an article offering a worrying new angle. According to the FT, the “top 20” health & wellness apps are sharing data on you with third parties that, the FT reckons, may include pharmaceutical and insurance companies.
They report that: “Regulations bar the tracking and selling of individuals’ specific medical and prescription records. Yet some companies are figuring out ways around those restrictions by building digital health profiles about people based on their use of the web and mobile apps.”
Perhaps a case of reading those Ts & Cs carefully before pressing ‘accept’?
We highlight that we are allowed to share DE-IDENTIFIED STATISTICAL information only, but not allowed to share in any way any personal info.