We recently investigated 8 of the most downloaded period tracking apps to assess their data processing activities and to analyse what it means for the privacy of users’ reproductive health data.
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Many menstruating individuals today use period-tracking apps as a convenient digital tool on their smart phone to track their menstruation.privacyinternational.org
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in reply to Privacy International • • •Our technical analysis unearthed unique findings about how the apps collected and shared users’ device data. We also found that several apps integrated a significant amount of third parties, some of which were not disclosed within their privacy policy.
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Analysis: What does this all mean?
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in reply to Privacy International • • •We continue to scrutinise the risks to privacy posed by some apps’ embedded practices, a risk further exacerbated due to the volatile political landscape that is threatening people’s reproductive rights.
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All Eyes on my Period? Period tracking apps and the future of privacy in a post-Roe world
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in reply to Privacy International • • •Any of these period-tracking apps that are connected to the internet will eventually fail to keep users' data secure.
There will be some form of leakage and unauthorized data hacking.
And that's if the companies that run these trackers don't get sold and then change their terms of use.
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