Privacy Concerns Surrounding Personal Information Sharing on Health and Fitness Mobile Apps

Health and fitness apps collect various personal information including name, email address, age, height, weight, and in some cases, detailed health information. When using these apps, many users trustfully log everything from diet to sleep patterns. However, by sharing such personal information, end-users may make themselves targets to misuse of this information by unknown third parties, such as insurance companies. Despite the important role of informed consent in the creation of health and fitness applications, the intersection of ethics and information sharing is understudied and is an often-ignored topic during the creation of mobile applications. **Privacy Concerns Surrounding Personal Information Sharing on Health and Fitness Mobile Apps** is a key reference source that provides research on the dangers of sharing personal information on health and wellness apps, as well as how such information can be used by employers, insurance companies, advertisers, and other third parties. While highlighting topics such as data ethics, privacy management, and information sharing, this publication explores the intersection of ethics and privacy using various quantitative, qualitative, and critical analytic approaches. It is ideally designed for policymakers, software developers, mobile app designers, legal specialists, privacy analysts, data scientists, researchers, academicians, and upper-level students. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Book Series Editorial Advisory Board Table of Contents Detailed Table of Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgment Section 1: Personal Information Sharing and Data Ownership: Mobile Applications and Wearable Technologies Chapter 1: What Can Fitness Apps Teach Us About Group Privacy? Chapter 2: Role of Wearable Technology and Fitness Apps in Obesity and Diabetes Chapter 3: Data Ownership Chapter 4: Wearable Devices and Privacy Concerns Section 2: Health and Fitness Apps: Data Privacy and Data Breach Chapter 5: How Do Mobile Applications for Cancer Communicate About Their Privacy Practices? Chapter 6: Case Study Section 3: The Psychology of Behavior: What Motivates Users to Share Personal Information? Chapter 7: Exploitation of Health on Instagram Chapter 8: Governmentality, Playbor, and Peak Performance Section 4: The Role of Language in Shaping Conceptions of Privacy Chapter 9: An Analysis of Privacy Language in the Scholarly Literature on Mental Health Apps Chapter 10: “Sensitive but Essential Information” Epilogue Afterword Compilation of References About the Contributors Index "This book provides research on the dangers of sharing personal information on health and wellness apps, as well as how such information can be used by employers, insurance companies, advertisers, and other third parties"-- Provided by publisher