Australian research finds 'pervasive' privacy breaches on health apps

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Thousands of health-related mobile phone applications have "serious problems with privacy," according to analysis by Macquarie University in Australia.

Published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the Sydney-based team's research into more than 20,000 apps found "collection of personal user information" to be "pervasive."