Security News > 2022 > August > Mozilla finds 18 of 25 popular reproductive health apps share your data

Eighteen of 25 reproductive health apps and wearable devices reviewed by Mozilla received a *Privacy Not Included warning label - meaning they have problems when it comes to protecting users' privacy and security.

For its latest *Privacy Not Included guide - it has compiled several of these to help consumers shop for relatively safe and less creepy products and apps that connect to the internet - Mozilla's researchers chose ten popular period tracking apps, ten pregnancy tracking apps, and five health and fitness wearable devices that track fertility.

Euki doesn't collect any personal information about users, and all of the data it asks users to enter about their reproductive health and sexual history is stored locally on the device.

After choosing the apps and products to review, the team assigned warning labels to the ones that received two or more warnings on criteria such as how the company uses the data it collects - for example, buying and selling to data brokers.

Equally concerning is that the majority of the apps don't have clear guidelines on when and how much user data they will share with US law enforcement.

Some apps collect additional user data via social media platforms and sell it to data brokers.

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