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- Developer of Popular Women’s Fertility-Tracking App Settles FTC Allegations that It Misled Consumers About the Disclosure of their Health Data;
- Lawsuit claiming Flo Health app shared intimate data with Facebook greenlit as Canadian class action;
- Google, Flo Health to pay $56 million in period-tracking app privacy case;
- Menstrual tracking app data is a ‘gold mine’ for advertisers that risks women’s safety;
- You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information. Then They Tell Facebook
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I suppose the nefarious use of that data would be targeted ads? Also, I track my wife’s cycles by observing the lunar cycle. Maybe some people are less regular or some people want more data logging but the moon is a pretty good indicator. Would recommend looking at it from time to time.
The nefarious use of the data would be to track and convict women who “may” have had abortions dude… Combined with telemetry data of when you may have had to travel to a blue state for a day or two and it’s not a difficult pattern to spot
So what I’m seeing is a chance for men to confuse the data by installing a period tracking app, tracking fake periods, then skipping a few months and resuming, which might make some asshole cops doing a particularly asshole investigation waste time and resources. A parricularly ambitious man could even set up multiple accounts to pretend to be a whole slew of briefly pregnant women.
A really enterprising individual may even VPN into Texas to pretend to be the aforementioned slew of briefly pregnant women… Get the most value out of you efforts, ya know?
Has this ever happened and led to a conviction? Seems far-fetched to me but I am privileged in many ways. I’m sorry that this is even a possibility in some places.
The flo app apparently shared data with Facebook. Besides that, there already have been multiple cases where police used Flock cameras for abortion investigations, so this really isn’t that far fetched.