SOURCE September 4, 2014 Privacy policies are a sore point for Internet users. At least once a year the pitchforks and torches come out when a company like Facebook or Twitter changes its policies around how it uses, sells or secures users’ data—things like browsing habits, phone numbers, relationships and email addresses. You don’t hear as much hue and cry over the privacy of mobile health apps, where people store and track what are literally their most intimate details. But perhaps you should. Because in fact, a recent survey of mobile health apps led by Boston Children’s Hospital’s Kenneth Mandl, MD, MPH, finds that only about 30 percent of mobile health apps have any kind of policy covering the privacy of users’ data. Mandl, who chairs biomedical informatics and population health in Boston Children’s Informatics Program, points out that most health app developers aren’t familiar with health care’s unusually intense focus on privacy and information security. That’s because

Source: internetmedicine.com