Health Apps Are Selling User Data

According to some health policy researchers, by “flying under the radar” and putting out convoluted privacy policies that users don’t understand, small health-app providers are able to get away with routinely collecting and selling consumer personal health information. Neither litigators nor regulators are paying much attention, says the director of a law and technology research group at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. But, she adds, an offending mobile health app from a deep-pocketed larger company that has a misleading privacy policy could find itself the target of a class action lawsuit.