What's on Your Mind? Exploring Privacy of Mental Health Apps
Mental health app privacy analysis exposes sensitive data handling gaps, highlighting GDPR special category obligations for European healthcare technology providers.
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arXiv:2605.02016v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Therapy and life-coaching apps have been rapidly growing in number, flavors, and popularity. However, their users routinely share highly sensitive and personal information, such as traumas, fantasies, desires, relationship difficulties, and other mental health concerns. This prompts the need for an empirical analysis of privacy practices in this ecosystem, and particularly the alignment between these apps' privacy policies and their actual beh
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