Menstrual tracking app data is a ‘gold mine’ for advertisers that risks women’s safety
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i'd like to point out that it shouldn't be on women (or anyone) to be on constant guard against attacks on their privacy.
yes, it is the state of the world, but the attitude of your comment is victim blaming.
let's not forget that while we on Lemmy may be aware of the danger of mass surveillance tech, we're not the majority.
snowden told us years ago how fucked everything is, and surveillance has only grown since then. let's not forget that it is not normal that corpo data-mining is the norm (along with included de-facto warrantless surveillance). Even though we all should be better, nobody should have to be as careful as we are.
hell, let's be real. As long as we use a smartphone, we're not being careful enough either.
Oh for fucks sake, I already apologized twice.
But still walking alone into a dark alley at night in a questionable neighborhood is not the smartest thing if you don't want to be assaulted. -
Exacty, Drip features tracking for temperature, cervical mucus, the cervix, sex (solo or partner), desire, pain, and mood, along with spotting and your bleeding levels. It's not just about "when will I have my period?" Additionally I love Drip because of the heads-up notif I get from them 3 days before my predicted period date. Also ut's nice to have a computer calculate when my period will be and shows me if any were a little off or earlier than expected.
Plus since it's encrypted and local, law enforcement would have to crack that to find my period data. I could totally imagine law enforcement coming up with a bullshit warrant and breaking into someone's home, and finding a calendar or notebook marked with their period data and being tried for it.
Do they include period prediction now?
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Yeah, and of course I haven't looked into all of the tech and security of ways to set up these apps. I'm just exhausted myself from it seeming like nothing is ever 100% secure or free from risk, and I'm so cynical about the country I live in and what it will become in the future that I would just rather not trust anything at this point. I'm sure that doesn't 100% hold water/is completely rational, but it's where my head is.
I get that. It shouldn't be necessary to do research just to be sure it's safe. I apologise for my aggressive tone. It must be really scary and exhausting to live somewhere like that. My country is still holding up but seems to be sliding slowly in that direction too.
So do whatever makes you stay safe and feel safe.
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GitHub - EmmaTellblom/Mensinator: Privacy focused period tracking!
Privacy focused period tracking! Contribute to EmmaTellblom/Mensinator development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub (github.com)
That is pretty cool. But I have to think since the US is the country in which this is pertinent an iOS app would be most effective.
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@chunes@lemmy.world i can see your deleted comment just fyi. Next time don’t write that shit if you don’t want it read.
I know people can read it if they want. I don't see what it is to you.
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Wrong, Apple Health fails to include a libre software license text file. We do not control it, anti-libre software. Does Apple really think we are this easy to scam? It bans us from fixing backdoors.
Yeah I know it’s not FOSS in the slightest, but it’s not a predatory app selling your health data to the highest bidder, presumably. I acknowledge that requires taking Apple’s word at face value though
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The same could be said of to-do lists, right? But I still like having an app with a checklist, because my phone is always with me and a piece of paper is not.
When I did have periods (thank god for testosterone), I had a really difficult time keeping track of them and they were often very irregular. The app I used helped me pick up patterns and would warn me when I needed to be prepped. My dysphoria cope was pretending that they didn’t happen ever, so it was helpful to have that occasional “hey, pack some pads today” as a notification without constantly checking a calendar.
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Oh for fucks sake, I already apologized twice.
But still walking alone into a dark alley at night in a questionable neighborhood is not the smartest thing if you don't want to be assaulted.if you don’t want to be assaulted.
you don't have to apologize, that's not my point. in fact i want you to quietly think about how what you said before, and just now might be wrong til it hits home for you.
i know it seems like im baiting an answer. its the net, arguing is fun, nothing's stopping you from replying, but I'm being straight with you. stop victim blaming. you're not stupid, im not saying you are. *please, stop. it only helps the oppressor, and we're all getting stomped by that boot.
i want you to know im not tryina bust your chops specifically. sure, i picked your comment to reply to, but it's nothing personal.
I'm also speaking broadly to the room, reminding everybody what we already know; that how we look at pervasive surveillance n how we got to live under it is absolutely broken.
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For christ sake, is there no open source option for such a simple task?
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2 people here could point to drip within 15 minutes of my post, and a third to the fact there are options on F-droid. So why the fuck don't women just use that?
Well i guess the ones with harmful advertising have better graphics or somemeting. Or the fact they allow advertising makes them more visible on google play. And you probably can't even get drip on iPhones.Feedback I've heard about Drip was that the interface was slightly wanting. Which is a shame. Sample of one, bear in mind!
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Yeah, discoverability is a massive issue on the Play store. If it doesn't bring Daddy Google 30% of whatever they shovel through in ad money or mtx, then you won't see it.
I'm not sure what the best answer to that is. I don't think it's forcing Google to improve its search results.
I want it to be the average person gaining a baseline level of computer and media literacy such that they seek out and find apps that cannot send sensitive data to third parties without the user's clear intent, but I don't think we'll ever get there.
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I'm not sure what the best answer to that is. I don't think it's forcing Google to improve its search results.
I want it to be the average person gaining a baseline level of computer and media literacy such that they seek out and find apps that cannot send sensitive data to third parties without the user's clear intent, but I don't think we'll ever get there.
Unfortunately I think the age of computer literacy came and went. Phones don't even seem to want you to know that a file is a thing.
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Already trapped in iOS? More anti-libre apps make escape harder.
I don't disagree with that, but the point here was freedom from advertisers and general data privacy, not data portability.
But there is an "export all data" feature in health, though.
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Getting an app like drip, libre software, is not 'extremism'. lmao
I didn’t realize those were baseband firmwares. Neat!
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I don't disagree with that, but the point here was freedom from advertisers and general data privacy, not data portability.
But there is an "export all data" feature in health, though.
Read my first comment again.
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I didn’t realize those were baseband firmwares. Neat!
Some people never learn.
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Some people never learn.
What baseband firmware do you use? And who maintains that firmware?
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Read my first comment again.
Read the original comment again.
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What baseband firmware do you use? And who maintains that firmware?
How does this fix our menstrual apps?
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I'm not sure what the best answer to that is. I don't think it's forcing Google to improve its search results.
I want it to be the average person gaining a baseline level of computer and media literacy such that they seek out and find apps that cannot send sensitive data to third parties without the user's clear intent, but I don't think we'll ever get there.
It is improving search result, with filters. Ads, tracking, data deletion possibility, in-app purchases, license, etc...
At least some of these are already tracked.
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How does this fix our menstrual apps?
Apple already fixed it years ago when they released iOS 12.
Backing up health records data
You can use iCloud to store your Health data, including health records, using end-to-end encryption (requires iOS 12 or later and two-factor authentication). Health and health records data is also included in local iTunes backups, if you’ve configured your iTunes backups to be encrypted.
About the privacy and security of your health records - Apple Support
Learn how Apple protects your privacy when you use Health Records to download your data from your healthcare organizations.
Apple Support (support.apple.com)
Can you name a phone that has open source basebands that has a FLOSS license attached to it? Surely if you're arguing against apple, you are not using a phone that has proprietary blobs in the firmware.
