How private is your period-tracking app? Not very, study reveals

The Guardian ^ | Wed 17 Aug 2022 04.00 EDT | Kari Paul

[BenLurkin]

Period tracking apps are used by nearly one in three women in the US logging information about length of menstrual cycle, types of birth control used, and other health issues.

[EEGator]

I have no words.

[blackdog]

What??? Oh brother......

[GaltAdonis]

Might be useful if the 'rhythm method' is your chosen type of birth of control.

[chajin]

Tracking periods is bad enough, but when they start tracking ellipses...

[Nifster]

Why use an app at all?

Can they not read a calendar

[chajin]

Might be useful if the 'rhythm method' is your chosen type of birth of control.

I got rhythm
Period-tracking,
Won't get pregnant:
Who could ask for anything more?

[GaltAdonis]

A calendar is just SO low-tech...

/sarc

[southernindymom]

I personally feel that young girls going on birth control at a very early age has caused the fertility issues we have today.

[GaltAdonis]

Period Tracking -

Your period is here > . <

No charge for this service. You're welcome.

[Political Junkie Too]

LOL! Here's the debate counter-argument:

Life has just begun
Jack has found his Jill;
Don't know what you've done
But I'm all a-thrill

You'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!

-PJ

[ConservativeInPA]

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.

[BenLurkin]

What's a calendar?

[EEGator]

Self obsessed fickle hoochies.

[BenLurkin]

“Oh heavens Father, and where will I find a band at 3 o’clock in the morning?”

[Chode]

a red dot on the calendar always worked...

[Missouri gal]

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!

[Dilbert San Diego]

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.

[Equine1952]

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. :)