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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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Digital period tracking in an age where abortion is under attack is a recipe for some dystopian handmaid type shit. I’ll continue to track on a paper calendar I can easily incinerate.
If you want to host your own: https://lemmy.world/post/43939821
Here’s what you should use: a calendar and a pen.
If it’s calendar, use https://codeberg.org/svewa/MedicalCalendarLog to log and get alerts on being late…
disclaimer: mine
Your car has electronics, you should use a horse instead.
Way ahead of ya, I ride a bike (••) ( ••)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■)
+1 for the glasses
I also ride a bike, but a bike can’t beat a car when you buy a new bed.
I really want to see a bike that could.Because you’re buying a new bed/dresser/large furniture everyday.
You should see my mansion, I need another one soon.
Yup, exactly. Nothing digital is truly safe. You want to properly avoid having your data secretly subpoenaed? Use a fucking journal or planner, and just mark your period days with a different colored pen, or put a raindrop in the corner and say it was days you personally predicted it to rain. Turns out, your tarot cards are just really bad at predicting the weather.
You could be open about it, and use it to track symptoms, calculate days between cycles, etc… But the more detailed you make it, the more obvious it will be if someone else gets ahold of it.
And make sure to lock it in a safe and burn it when you’re done with it. Also don’t share with your health Care provider without vetting them, and ensuring they aren’t recording and disclosing your information. Or using AI. Good luck, essentially impossible to get good health Care for women, same as it ever was.
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Although that was obvious
Hi! Woman here and that guy is correct. Tracking your cycle on paper is far safer than any app ever could be. These apps are not safe for your personal data.
I’ve been tracking in my paper planner for the last few years and I haven’t had to worry about any of these apps or companies getting my data. I track PMS symptoms, start and end times, amount of flow, and more. I can take my planner to the doctor to discuss any issues that may come up.
Calendars, bullet journals, and graph paper are the best ways to track periods.
Not a guy, but thank you lol
Apologies! You are very correct :)
No worries ♥️
My wife and I have a shared proton calendar and she just marks the dates there.
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PrivacyGuides has a section about this on their website: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/health-and-wellness/#menstrual-cycle-tracking
At the time of writing, it seems Drip is the best option on both iOS and Android. The app is free, open-source, and all data is completely local. Honorable mention to Euki as well
Drip is also on Android, available both as an APK and on the Google Play store.
And on fdroid. It’s fully offline AFAIK.
Yes, completely on device. I happen to personally know one of the maintainers and got to discuss some of the code with her. Also completely open source, so if you don’t trust the packaged apps, you could even build it yourself from source
That is a legendary GitLab user name.
Euki is also on Android.
It only stores local, so as safe as a phone app can be.P Tracker is the one used by my SO
Withholding my upvote because your links are to Play Store instead of F-Droid.
Nothing, you should never use an app to track your period. Use a calendar there is no reason you should give that sort of info to anyone besides a doctor.
Or understand the difference between software that mines data and software that just does what it says. If it advertises cloud features, then it’s probably a data mining app. There’s firewall apps that make any other app need permission to use the internet at all that you can use as a gatekeeper, but then you need to adopt the mindset of wondering why an app wants internet access instead of just clicking “allow” so that things work asap.
But yeah, pen and paper or even a spreadsheet not dedicated to tracking periods are good options if you want to avoid worrying about all that. Only thing I’ll add is that it applies to a lot more than just period tracking apps and IMO is as useful these days as knowing how to do basic car or home maintenance.
The reason is to get a notification it’s coming. The reason is because I’m so fried surviving, I don’t have the mental energy to spend on calculating the due date and then changing it by a day due to trends I’d also have to track. I barely remember to log it in an app, there’s no way I’m logging it on a calendar, and then keeping track of that paper for multiple months or years to track trends. bleeding through my pants at work is worse to me than the spyware. Being a woman is hard enough. Blame the Spyware, not the women.
Mesinator is pretty cool too
Mensinator is the name of the drummer in my gwar tribute band.
I was trying to get frisky with my gf once but she told me “not today, GWAR is in town.”
I told her “So? Getting bloody is half the fun of a GWAR concert.”
iOS has a built in feature as well, which Apple claims is private.
Private until apple gets a subpoena from a prosecutor in some medieval christo-fascist red state trying to turn a miscarriage into a murder charge.
I mean, Apple also provides E2EE cloud backups. Assuming it is properly encrypted without backdoors, Apple could only “comply” with a subpoena by turning over the encrypted data blob. The feddy bois would only get the digital equivalent of white noise unless they could decrypt it.
Apple employs on-device storage. Don’t use iCloud backup. I don’t know how the listed apps work, but if there’s a cloud sync, the same thing applies to them - and they’re less able to fight it should they choose to.
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.
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