Posted on 08/18/2022 3:01:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Of the 10 pregnancy apps, 10 period trackers and five wearables reviewed in the study, only seven were deemed to have safe user data and privacy practices. Most collected large amounts of personal data and shared it with third parties such as data brokers and advertisers. The study also examined security practices and found eight apps failed to meet minimum security standards and allowed weak passwords. Many apps also offered unclear policies surrounding police warrants for user data or made no stance on such requests.
Period tracking apps are used by nearly one in three women in the US, according to a 2019 survey published by the Kaiser Family Foundation, logging large swaths of information about length of menstrual cycle, types of birth control used, and other health issues.
The majority of the apps studied had “misleading” data-sharing policies and lacked clear guidelines on how data requests from law enforcement would be handled, the study showed.
Researchers are encouraging users to read up before they choose a tracking app, and to avoid apps that collect large amounts of data regardless of what privacy practices they advertise.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
I have no words.
What??? Oh brother......
Tracking periods is bad enough, but when they start tracking ellipses...
Why use an app at all?
Can they not read a calendar
I got rhythm
Period-tracking,
Won't get pregnant:
Who could ask for anything more?
/sarc
I personally feel that young girls going on birth control at a very early age has caused the fertility issues we have today.
Your period is here > . <
No charge for this service. You're welcome.
Life has just begun-PJ
Jack has found his Jill;
Don't know what you've done
But I'm all a-thrillYou've made my life so glamorous
You can't blame me for feeling amorous
Oh, 'S wonderful! 'S marvelous!
That you should care for me!
I’ve tried most of them. They don’t work, even when I try my hardest to identify as a female. Maybe I am too old and have already went through manopause.
Self obsessed fickle hoochies.
“Oh heavens Father, and where will I find a band at 3 o’clock in the morning?”
a red dot on the calendar always worked...
All the pedometers and medical data devices share your data. You can’t opt out. Data goes to the vendor, China and whoever they sell it to. I think the feds can get it too, but not positive.
Yes, women need to track their periods to know when they’re fertile and when the difficult time of month is gonna happen. The complex machinery of reproduction doesn’t operate like clockwork. Jeez!
One third of women use an app to track their cycles?
I can understand if a woman is tracking her cycle, but, why the need for an app?
This sounds like an issue of privacy, of another example of our private information on the internet. Be careful out there; we all leave a footprint online.
Manopause was a beotch, I had hot flashes working that summer and was cranky when the fish weren’t biting. It was miserable, but now that sex don’t really interest me, I can go fishing when they are biting and don’t bitch so much. I do use more boat gas though. FJB and high fuel prices. :)
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