The team behind menstrual health and period tracking app Clue has said it will not disclose users’ data to American authorities, following Donald Trump’s reelection.
The message comes in response to concerns that during Trump’s second presidency, abortion bans that followed the overturn of Roe v. Wade in 2022 will worsen and states will attempt to increase menstrual surveillance in order to further restrict access to terminations.
That will last only until a judge signs a warrant.
Or until Trump decides to have an army of hackers like Putin.
Cool but the proper solution is that they shouldn’t have access to this data at all. It should be either stored locally, or encrypted on their servers. Companies not being able to access their consumer data should be the default.
Still not worth the risk to download it. Get a paper journal, they make ones that guide you through tracking all the necessary data.
Research conducted by the Mozilla Foundation indicates that the app referred to in the article, Clue, gathers extensive information and shares certain data with third parties for advertising, marketing, and research reasons.
Here are some menstruation tracking apps that are open-source and prioritize user privacy by keeping your data stored locally on your device:
So the government just needs to acquire this data from one of those third parties if it wants it.
so what they’re really saying is they won’t give it away for free
My wife uses a spreadsheet and connected it to her calendar. Seems pretty accurate.
It is a modified version of this:
Hmm, would there be a place for a e2e encrypted menstrual tracking app? I made such an app for tracking baby activities, menstrual calendar sounds much easier.
