Abstract
The ongoing popularity of health and fitness applications catalyzes the need for exploring forensic artifacts produced by them. Sensitive Personal Identifiable Information (PII) is requested by the applications during account creation. Augmenting that with ongoing user activities, such as the user's walking paths, could potentially create exculpatory or inculpatory digital evidence. We conducted extensive manual analysis and explored forensic artifacts produced by (n = 13) popular Android mobile health and fitness applications. We also developed and implemented a tool that aided in the timely acquisition and identification of artifacts from the examined applications. Additionally, our work explored the type of data that may be collected from health and fitness web platforms, and Web Scraping mechanisms for data aggregation. The results clearly show that numerous artifacts may be recoverable, and that the tested web platforms pose serious privacy threats.
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