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Andy Meek
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Apple CEO Tim Cook has made it clear that he wants the iPhone maker to do much more in the areas of health and wellness. VR, meanwhile, has yet to go mainstream, but Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has talked up the potential of a device like his company's Oculus Quest 2 to help users improve their health and overall fitness (it's no joke -- I own one, and you definitely work up a sweat playing something like Beat Saber). Apple Watches and fitness trackers of all kinds are now a ubiquitous sight almost anywhere you go, and people have correspondingly gotten much more comfortable sharing personal, health-related data with the mobile apps on their phones.
You can probably guess where this is going. There's a corresponding dark side to these trends, as new research from Australia's Macquarie University shows. It was published in The British Medical Journal, and finds that mobile health apps are hoovering up an ominous amount of data.
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