Menstrual tracking app data is a ‘gold mine’ for advertisers that risks women’s safety – report
Menstrual tracking app data is a ‘gold mine’ for advertisers that risks women’s safety – report
Cambridge researchers urge public health bodies like the NHS to provide trustworthy, research-driven alternatives to platforms driven by profit.
Which is why I’m tracking my perimenopause on one despite being a dude, to make the data less useful.
That's the way. We should all trash the data of advertisers and data miners.
Fdroid store has several period tracking apps that don't track anything more than your cycle.
pen and paper (or a fucking text document) is also notoriously unlikely to send your data to the pentagon
True. But pen and paper are also notoriously used as evidence in court cases, and it's state laws, not the Pentagon (for now) that are prosecuting women for not being baby machines.
I've been saying it for years, but get no traction unless I'm preaching to the choir - these health data tracking programs are not your friend, and your MD shouldn't need them to competently render medical services to you. I'm staring to feel like Cassandra of Troy the way that I'm predicting trends and inevitable outcomes to people who don't give a shit about their own personal safety.
The data is not secure, and the systems which purport to protect them are so lackluster that they bear comparison to guarding piles of meat from wet dogs with a paper fence. This information will reveal compromising details about your personal life which are a blackmailer's wet dream, to say nothing of data aggregators, and the possible application by something so commonplace as insurance companies to approve/deny coverage.
Worse yet, in this case, is the application by "bad actors" beyond the government(s) where legality of sexual healthcare is in flux (see: gender affirming care, abortion, homosexuality, etc.). It bears considering that rapists with access to said information could use it not only to track their victim's location, and other particulars, but to help them avoid/succeed in impregnating the victim in question. This shit needs to go, it's a five alarm blaze with no smoke.
Combined with "ai bros" this has convinced me that most humans arent people. Just unrefrigerated meat.
Hasn't been updated in a few years but there's log28 on f-droid.
can@sh.itjust.works isn't there also Drip as an open source option?
Apparently there is. Thank you.