{"title":"Nudging Data Privacy of Mobile Health Applications in Saudi Arabia","authors":"Abdulhakim Sabur, Ahmad J. Showail","doi":"10.4018/ijisp.345647","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Mobile health apps are a digital era revolution, facilitating direct patient-physician communication, lab and test orders, and medication refills. Despite these benefits, security and privacy issues arise due to handling sensitive data. This paper assesses the security and privacy of Saudi Arabian mobile healthcare apps, gauging compliance with the Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL). Results highlight varied PDPL compliance, underscoring the imperative for enhanced security measures in the digital healthcare landscape.","PeriodicalId":44332,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Information Security and Privacy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2024-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Information Security and Privacy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijisp.345647","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Mobile health apps are a digital era revolution, facilitating direct patient-physician communication, lab and test orders, and medication refills. Despite these benefits, security and privacy issues arise due to handling sensitive data. This paper assesses the security and privacy of Saudi Arabian mobile healthcare apps, gauging compliance with the Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL). Results highlight varied PDPL compliance, underscoring the imperative for enhanced security measures in the digital healthcare landscape.
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As information technology and the Internet become more and more ubiquitous and pervasive in our daily lives, there is an essential need for a more thorough understanding of information security and privacy issues and concerns. The International Journal of Information Security and Privacy (IJISP) creates and fosters a forum where research in the theory and practice of information security and privacy is advanced. IJISP publishes high quality papers dealing with a wide range of issues, ranging from technical, legal, regulatory, organizational, managerial, cultural, ethical and human aspects of information security and privacy, through a balanced mix of theoretical and empirical research articles, case studies, book reviews, tutorials, and editorials. This journal encourages submission of manuscripts that present research frameworks, methods, methodologies, theory development and validation, case studies, simulation results and analysis, technological architectures, infrastructure issues in design, and implementation and maintenance of secure and privacy preserving initiatives.