{"id":1853,"date":"2020-08-28T01:09:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T01:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2020-08-28T01:09:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T01:09:01","slug":"meet-the-non-profit-looking-for-security-breached-in-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/meet-the-non-profit-looking-for-security-breached-in-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Non Profit Looking for Security Breached in Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The non-profit that seeks out security breaches by apps:IDAC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is IDAC goal? To protect consumer data<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What recent discovery did it make? A fertility app on android phones was collecting a lot of personal data with no opt out for consumers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why was the IDAC alerted? the App masked personal health data in the same way TikTok was masking data that it sent out<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is this new, finding a breach of personal health data on Apps? No, last year Consumer Reports identified Ovia, a pregnancy-tracking app that shares users\u2019 data with their employers and insurers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2020\/08\/21\/cybersecurity-202-fertility-apps-data-sharing-with-chinese-companies-raises-privacy-concerns-researchers-say\/\">Washington Post | The Cybersecurity 202: Fertility app\u2019s data sharing with Chinese companies raises privacy concerns, researchers say<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The non-profit that seeks out security breaches by apps:IDAC What is IDAC goal? To protect consumer data What recent discovery did it make? A fertility app on android phones was collecting a lot of personal data with no opt out for consumers Why was the IDAC alerted? the App masked personal health data in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1854,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions\/1854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}