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Mental health apps are leaking your private thoughts. How do you protect yourself? — Photo by Rajesh S Balouria on Pexels

5 Security Fails in Mental Health Therapy Apps

Mental health therapy apps often leave your private conversations exposed because they fail to encrypt data, disclose sharing practices, and lack proper security audits. In 2024 a comprehensive security audit of popular therapy apps found that unencrypted conversation logs were stored on devices, making them vulnerable to simple file-system snooping.