Popular Mobile Health Apps Pose Consumer Privacy Risks

• More than 75% of no-cost mobile health apps used some form of behavioral tracking, compared with 45% of such paid apps
• 43% of no-cost mobile health apps provided a link to a privacy policy on the developer's website, compared with 25% of such paid apps
• 39% of no-cost mobile health apps sent data to an unidentified third-party, compared with 30% of such paid apps
• 26% of no-cost mobile health apps lacked a privacy policy, compared with 40% of such paid apps
• 13% of no-cost mobile health apps encrypted data connections and transmission, compared with 10% of such paid apps
  Source - Privacy Rights Clearinghouse