Android News: Federal Trade Commission Cracks Down On Mobile Apps That Claim To Diagnose Skin Cancer

Heads up, app developers: there is a really good reason that the government licences people to practice medicine. Unless your app is smart enough to go through four years of med school, you probably shouldn't claim that it can diagnose diseases. The developers of "Mole Detective" on the Google Play Store and similar apps have reason to reflect on this, as the Federal Trade Commission has slapped them with fines and restricted them from claiming that their apps could reliably diagnose melanoma.

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Federal Trade Commission Cracks Down On Mobile Apps That Claim To Diagnose Skin Cancer was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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