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Assessment of the Fairness of Privacy Policies of Mobile Health Apps: Scale Development and Evaluation in Cancer Apps.

Jaime BenjumeaJorge RoperoOctavio Rivera RomeroEnrique Dorronzoro ZubieteAlejandro Carrasco
Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth (2020)
In this paper, we present a scale for the assessment of mHealth apps that is an improved version of our previous scale with adjusted scores. The results showed a lack of fairness in the mHealth app privacy policies that we examined, and the scale provides developers with a tool to evaluate their privacy policies.
Keyphrases
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