Privacy Forum Pushes Guidance for Wearables, Health Apps

The Future of Privacy Forum published best-practice guidance for consumer wearables and connected health apps, urging device makers to provide transparent privacy policies, obtain express user consent (including for secondary uses), prohibit sale of covered health data to advertisers or brokers, apply contractual safeguards when sharing with partners, and implement comprehensive security programs (encryption, administrative/technical/physical controls, resilience and ongoing assessment).