We commend Mozilla for shedding light on this issue. We at AdGuard are deeply concerned about the low privacy standards employed by the apps. Half of the apps did not request consent from users to track them, while the absolute majority shared data with third parties. Another recently released survey which analyzed data security policies of the 23 most popular women's health apps came to the same conclusion.
Mozilla says mental health apps are "a data harvesting bonanza". Moreover, it was reported that Better Help shares metadata with Facebook. The app can share data with advertisers and store client-therapist communications on the platform in an encrypted form. Another app on the blacklist is Better Help with its "incredibly vague and messy" privacy policy. Moreover, the company can enrich the data with the information on gender, age, ethnicity, income and political views it buys elsewhere, and reserves the right to publish users' name, voice and other personal information for any commercial purpose. And while sharing is caring, took the notion too literally as it shares user data with third parties for advertising purposes. For instance, which touts itself as "#1 app for Christians" loves sharing. Six of the apps - Better Help, Youper, Woebot, Better Stop Suicide,, and Talkspace - fared especially poorly. Mental health and prayer apps score dismal on the privacy chartĪ new Mozilla survey has found that 28 out of 32 apps that deal with such issues as suicide, depression, sexual violence and religious beliefs have fallen "spectacularly" short of basic privacy standards. In this edition of AdGuard’s Digest: Apps overshare your data, DuckDuckGo flirts with a tech giant, patients sue Google, the EU sacrifices privacy to save children, Twitter launches a game, Mozilla’s having it both ways with Manifest V3, and more.
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