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.
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I only track apostrophes, as they are misused the most.
They are the crux of the biscuit.
I’ll ask my dog about that.
Bloody awful.
Track these!!
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Translates loosely as “EEEEEEEE#SSSEEEESII5EEEIEEIESEEE”
This man is still waiting for his manopause.
Women too stupid to use a Cale dar in the bathroom?
I always used a paper calendar, but young people do life on their phones. I’m not at all surprised that the data is not secure. That must be the default assumption for any app.
It’s amazing. I worked in a call center environment with about 400 women.
You did not need an app.
Commas are beaten up, every day.
(Yeah. That was on purpose.)
I’m glad to be old school. My phone isn’t in every second of my life.
That’s how it should be. If I’m talking to a girl and she looks at her phone while I’m talking, I just walk away.
Me too. I feel sorry for families I see in restaurants where everyone is poking on phones instead of having a conversation. Their family will die off, but will any of them notice?
Too busy texting and playing Candy Crush...
Why use one? Is a calendar or memory not good enough? Do people use apps to tell them if they wiped their rear end?
Wait...you don’t use the Google Poop-Tracker app?
So if someone steals that information ... what would they do with it?
I have no words.
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Being a XX chromosome girl, I have words.
What the F is wrong with girls these days?
Cant they listen to their bodies and know it’s signs?
What have women done for the last 10,000 years that these snowflakes cant do? You have to post to your phone when you have your period? They can’t drive, work, talk-anything without their phones. It’s their perpetual nuk. Pacifier, mommy.
Their phones truly have become part of the snowflake’s personhood. We all grew up with TV but we were not wed to it. These snowflakes have become dependent on their phones as if it was their brain.
I would never wish that the electrical grid would crash, but I wonder what would happen to them if it did? Their little minds would explode. And maybe some girls would get their periods.
“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!”
But we dont need a phone. The Natives call it our moon.
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