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Mozilla privacy survey finds mental health and prayer apps fail privacy test pretty spectacularly.
Apps with the most sensitive data seem to be the worst at protecting user privacy, according to a review by Mozilla's Privacy Not Included team.
The analysts looked at 32 mental health and prayer apps to determine what kind of privacy protections are in place.
In a blog post about the review process, Mozilla Researcher Misha Rykov described the apps as "Data-sucking machines with a mental health app veneer." Mozilla also noted that the companies were "Incredibly unresponsive," with only one of the 32 companies responding in a timely manner to inquiries about privacy policies.
Wysa is an AI chatbot that gets a thumbs up for privacy protection as a mental health app that "Isn't looking to make money off your personal information," according to the app review.
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