Are mental health apps failing users on privacy protection?

Are many mental health applications merely ‘data-sucking machines’? — AFP Relaxnews

If you’ve downloaded any mental health apps, you might want to consider deleting them. According to a study conducted by researchers at the Mozilla Foundation, many of these applications do not offer sufficient protection of users’ privacy and security.

Are mental health applications failing users on privacy and security? Although they deal with particularly important and often sensitive topics – such as depression, anxiety, violence, eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder or suicide – many of these applications share user data freely.