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It’s 2023 people and I’m staggered how many apps / sites I use that leak personal data. Yesterday, someone asked my to try an AI coaching platform. It felt buggy so I started looking at the requests. Mins later I was able to view customer emails, DoBs, photos and location. Thousands of them. Fortunately I …

A brand‑new App Store will launch with Apple Vision Pro, featuring apps and games built for visionOS, as well as hundreds of thousands of iPad and iPhone apps that run great on visionOS too. Users can access their favorite iPad and iPhone apps side by side with new visionOS apps on the infinite canvas of Apple Vision Pro, enabling them …

The case against the music-streaming industry is as damning as ever. The leading services pay pittances to artists—usually, less than one cent per play. In a textbook demonstration of monopoly economics, megastars magnify their wealth while everyone else struggles to break even. Streaming technology is environmentally destructive, resulting in the release of up to 1.57 …

Was browsing the App Store and saw apps with ridiculous claims like: With the [redacted] medical app, you can check your heart rhythm in just one minute by placing your finger on your smartphone camera. Regular use supports the detection of cardiac arrhythmias, especially atrial fibrillation, to prevent a stroke. or this one: ​ – …

Extended cardiac monitoring in patients and the use of implantable cardiovascular electronic devices can increase detection of atrial fibrillation (AF), but the devices have limitations including short battery life and lack of immediate feedback. Can new smartphone tools that can record an electrocardiogram (ECG) strip and make an automated diagnosis overcome these limitations and facilitate …

As companies selling health care apps struggle to prove to a skeptical system that they really deliver results, we’re about to start hearing a lot more about “engagement.” A new paper scrutinizing six clinical trials supporting four mental health apps cleared by the Food and Drug Administration argues there’s an urgent need to close the …

LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 27, 2022) — For more than 70 years, May has marked Mental Health Awareness Month in the United States.  As the world begins to heal from the grim realities of living through a global pandemic, which brought prolonged isolation and new levels of anxiety, Mental Health Awareness Month has a new level of importance.  …

Depression apps may be sharing data getty A review of mental health and prayer apps has concluded that they offer poorer privacy and security than any other type of app. Mozilla’s investigation of 32 mental health and prayer apps, including Talkspace, Better Help, Calm, and Glorify found that 28 raised strong concerns over user data …

As a category, mental health apps have worse privacy protections for users than most other types of apps, according to a new analysis from researchers at Mozilla. Prayer apps also had poor privacy standards, the team found. “The vast majority of mental health and prayer apps are exceptionally creepy,” Jen Caltrider, the Mozilla *Privacy Not …

Centre blocks apps, website, social media accounts linked to banned ‘Sikhs For Justice’ organisation The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has ordered a ban on apps, website, and social media accounts linked to foreign-based “Punjab Politics TV” having close links with Sikhs For Justice (SFJ), an organization that has been declared unlawful under the Unlawful …