Exploring Privacy Practices of Female mHealth Apps in a Post-Roe World
Published in CHI 2024 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024
Recommended citation: Malki, L. M., Kaleva, I., Patel, D., Warner, M., & Abu-Salma, R. (2024, May). Exploring Privacy Practices of Female mHealth Apps in a Post-Roe World. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-24). https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3613904.3642521
We investigated the privacy practices of 20 popular female mHealth apps, combining a thematic analysis of Data safety sections and privacy policies with a privacy-focused usability inspection. Our findings revealed problematic practices, including inconsistencies across privacy policy content and privacy-related app features, flawed consent and data deletion mechanisms, and covert gathering of sensitive …
Recommended citation: Malki, L. M., Kaleva, I., Patel, D., Warner, M., & Abu-Salma, R. (2024, May). Exploring Privacy Practices of Female mHealth Apps in a Post-Roe World. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-24).