Mobile Health and Fitness Apps: What Are the Privacy Risks?

There are several options for downloading health and fitness applications. However, it’s probably easiest, safest, and most common to use the App Store for iOS applications and Google Play for Android. You can search both by app name or type and can read about an app before you download it. You can find out what the app does (although not necessarily the exact information it collects), see sample screens—and sometimes videos of how an app operates--read user reviews, link to the developer’s website and link to other comparable apps.