Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Health apps pose 'unprecedented' privacy risks
Is it a personal benefit or privacy breach? When you use health apps, you store a lot of personal health information knowingly or unknowingly; such as your blood pressure, heartbeat, the type and time of exercise, calorie consumption, and diet, along with your medical records, not to mention our personal profile information, such as your age, gender, race, blood type, color, weight, height, and BMI.
Yes, the more information you are known, the more personalized diagnoses and recommendations could be provided. You also could get target ads by relevant marketers that could suit your present or potential needs, such as supplements, exercise machines and sports gyms.
If it stops there, it may not cause you too much trouble. But once such information is leaked or sold to more aggressive parties that try to exploit or abuse personal information for their benefit, you’ll be in a big problem. Can that happen even if you use an app in anonymity? Yes, the information here and there could be artificially linked to form a unique identification.
This is no April fool.
Enjoy reading and learn about potential danger and disaster you could face from your health app.
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