VANCOUVER - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge says a class-action lawsuit can move forward over alleged privacy breaches against a company that made an app to track users’ menstrual and fertility cycles. The ruling published online Friday says the action against Flo Health Inc. alleges the company shared users’ highly personal health information with third-parties, including Facebook, Google and other companies.
free, open source, everything stored locally: https://dripapp.org/
Of all the things you most certainly do not need to upload to the cloud…
I mean cloud apps are popular because they are convenient. It’s just a shame that they are invariably infested with toxic capitalism. And now apparently Christian fascists.
im giggling like an idiot at that name
Result: “sorry we shared your personal data, here’s a check for 38 cents. “
Damn man, my gf pays for this app. That’s how we track her days. Corpos even know when we’re probably having sex now D:.
Stop paying for something that could easily be done with a pencil and a regular paper calendar.
Wow, my girlfriend uses this. Time to get her a FOSS-grown solution. Fuck the corpos!
That’s f’ed up.
Man, sometimes I feel like we’ve lost our spirit. I’m hopeful we can get it back, but these articles tell a different story. I hope for better days.
Come on, it is the 21st century.
Nobody should assume any other reason to create such an app than to harvest and sell personal medical data.
Here are some privacy focused alternatives (only for android 😕): https://pluja.github.io/awesome-privacy/#menstrual-cycle-trackers
I remember back in my teenage days, I tried to track some menstruations. It didn’t end well.
It’s 2024. People still assume apps installed on their phones aren’t siphoning every single 1 and 0 on your phone including your texts and recordings of your voice calls and then selling that data to a 3rd party advertising firm.
Why in FUCKS name would you put your menstrual cycle data on an app that some stranger made?
Agreed. Although I think the usefulness of the apps are aimed at tracking fertility to help people get pregnant. Which is even more scummy that they sell the data.
