Sunday, September 7, 2014

Apple Protects Data Collected Via HealthKit in iOS 8


It's probably in September iOS 8 will be in the hands of the general public. Among the novelties presented at the keynote in June, the health component is one of the largest. and Apple has thought of everything.

With Healthkit, developers who wish may decide to connect their iOS application to send the collected data to the Health application.


To prevent overflow, Apple chose to take precautions:

This is the Financial Times discovered this by looking closely at what Apple requires developers in exchange for access to Healthkit API. We learn that Apple banned developers to sell the collected data to a third party.


Knowing that we are talking about physical, or physiological, it's a great thing, because obviously it would have been very tempting to sell, for example, advertising platforms, information collected via Healthkit. One exception, the data can be provided to health services obviously with the consent of the user.

Apple has preferred to protect it from the start and added that applications will offer the user a privacy policy that it would be better to take the time to read.

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