Mozilla Privacy Research: 32 mainstream mental health applications, only 2 are qualified

CTOnews.com, May 5 (Xinhua)-- Firefox Firefox developer Mozilla has a team that investigates the privacy of apps. They read the privacy policy, see if proper protection is provided, and then check the company's records on data breaches and so on.

The team recently screened 32 mental health apps that are popular in the US and Europe, of which 19 were marked as "privacy not included", which shocked the team.

CTOnews.com note: the Mozilla team marked an app as "not including privacy", which means that the app is terrible at protecting users' privacy and security.

If an app has two or more privacy issues, it will be marked as "not including privacy".

Mozilla reports that most mental health apps collect and control users' privacy data, and only 2 of the 32 apps surveyed have no privacy issues at all:

PTSD Coach, from the Department of Veterans Affairs

Wysa AI chatbot, from Touchkin

The following 11 apps have one privacy issue:

Finch

Woebot

Moodfit

Bearable

Youper

Ginger

Recovery

Record

Calm

Superbetter

Modern

Health

NOCD

The following 19 apps are considered "bad" with two or more privacy issues:

Mindshift CBT

Breathe

Think, Do

With Sesame

7 Cups

MindDoc

Happify

Better Stop

Suicide

RAINN

Shine

Headspace

Liberate

Sanity & Self

Insight Timer

The Mighty

Sanvello

Talkspace

Cerebral

Betterhelp

Pride

Counseling

Replika

Worst of all is Replika, which has privacy issues in all aspects of data usage, data control, tracking, security and privacy policy review.

CTOnews.com attaches a link to a detailed report here, and interested users can jump here to read it.