An app is not the answer: Government’s ‘free’ mental health tool raises significant privacy concerns

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An app is not the answer: Government’s ‘free’ mental health tool raises significant privacy concerns
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A study commissioned by the PrivacyPrivee found that 92% of Canadians expressed concern about the protection of their privacy, with 37% stating that they were extremely concerned - via healthing_ca healthing data privacy

– an online platform that gives access to a virtual network of mental health and substance use supports.”

The app is “free” to use, includes “a self-assessment tool and tracker that monitors mood and mental well-being” and connects “seamlessly” to the WTC portal. The Canadian government states that PocketWell is a response to Canadians’ feedback, and part of WTC’s efforts to improve mental health and substance use services.

However, as an app that will record detailed information about user mood and mental well-being, Canadians should be made aware that PocketWell will extract a significant amount of data from users. And as data has now become the92 per cent of Canadians have expressed concern about the protection of their privacy, with 37 per cent stating they are extremely concerned.

found that 92 per cent of Canadians expressed concern about the protection of their privacy, with 37 per cent stating that they were extremely concerned. The OPC recorded 680 data breaches impacting 28 million Canadians for the year ending on Nov. 1, 2019. Meanwhile, advances in data science make it more difficult to maintain data anonymity and privacy protections as information now can be linked to other datasets and de-anonymized.

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