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Study cautions that third parties may share mental health app information
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.31878
Subject(s) - internet privacy , smartphone app , mental health , third party , depression (economics) , information transmission , mobile apps , psychology , business , advertising , world wide web , psychiatry , computer science , economics , computer network , macroeconomics
Third parties like Google and Facebook may not always be trusted with sensitive data related to users of smartphone apps for depression and smoking cessation, say researchers of what could be the first study, to assess data transmission practices involving third parties.