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Period tracking app refuses to disclose data to American authorities (www.newsweek.com)
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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.

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[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why the hell period data needs to be stored on the cloud?

How much could it weight? A few Kb? Local storage!

I would never trust such data leaving my device when is no need for it whatsoever.

Aren't there any open source period tracking apps? I'll do one, it can't be that hard. An sqlite database patched to a frontend calendar and some basic predictions based on normal scenarios.

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Aren’t there any open source period tracking apps?

Many. On F-Droid.

drip. menstrual cycle and fertility tracking (Open-source, non-commercial and leaves your data on your phone.) https://f-droid.org/packages/com.drip/

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Drip is a pretty wild name to call your menstrual tracking app.

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Everyone says that. Idk what the big deal is