Fertility apps collect unnecessary personal data and could sell it to third parties – study

Apps in Australia gathered information about finances and housing which could be sold to advertisers, research by UNSW and Choice found

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Four of Australia's top 12 fertility apps are unnecessarily collecting highly sensitive information and have left the door open to selling the data to other companies, a study has found.

The study, conducted jointly by University of New South Wales law researcher Dr Katharine Kemp and consumer group Choice assessed the privacy policies of the 12 most popular fertility apps in Australia, which help people track menstrual cycles, ovulation, potential fertile windows, and stages of pregnancy.

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