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.
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.
Wow, my girlfriend uses this. Time to get her a FOSS-grown solution. removed the corpos!
Here are some privacy focused alternatives (only for android 😕): https://pluja.github.io/awesome-privacy/#menstrual-cycle-trackers
I wrote a period tracker app that also encrypts/password protects the data at rest. If you’re concerned about someone taking your phone and accessing your data, it may also be worth a look.~~https://github.com/cameroncros/PrivatePeriodTracker~~
~~https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cross.privateperiodtracker~~
Drip looks better for most people though. But they should add encryption if they dont already have it.Use drip.
Encryption and password protection is in the changelog for drips first version v0.0.1 - 5 years ago
I couldnt find your app on fdroid btw
Result: “sorry we shared your personal data, here’s a check for 38 cents. “
That’s f’ed up.
I remember back in my teenage days, I tried to track some menstruations. It didn’t end well.
free, open source, everything stored locally: https://dripapp.org/
Of all the things you most certainly do not need to upload to the cloud…
