▲ 333 ▼ YSK: Flo period tracking app is proven spyware! Here is what you should use instead. (thelemmy.club) submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by beep@piefed.world to c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world 39 comments fedilink hide all child comments Read Developer of Popular Women’s Fertility-Tracking App Settles FTC Allegations that It Misled Consumers About the Disclosure of their Health Data; Lawsuit claiming Flo Health app shared intimate data with Facebook greenlit as Canadian class action; Google, Flo Health to pay $56 million in period-tracking app privacy case; Menstrual tracking app data is a ‘gold mine’ for advertisers that risks women’s safety; You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information. Then They Tell Facebook Android: BlueMoon; Periodical; Menstrudel. iOS: Menstrudel; Drip; Euki; Apple Health.
[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago (1 child) iOS has a built in feature as well, which Apple claims is private. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] mlfh@lm.mlfh.org 17 points 3 months ago (2 children) Private until apple gets a subpoena from a prosecutor in some medieval christo-fascist red state trying to turn a miscarriage into a murder charge. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 3 months ago Apple employs on-device storage. Don’t use iCloud backup. I don’t know how the listed apps work, but if there’s a cloud sync, the same thing applies to them - and they’re less able to fight it should they choose to. permalink fedilink source parent [–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 3 months ago I mean, Apple also provides E2EE cloud backups. Assuming it is properly encrypted without backdoors, Apple could only “comply” with a subpoena by turning over the encrypted data blob. The feddy bois would only get the digital equivalent of white noise unless they could decrypt it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mlfh@lm.mlfh.org 17 points 3 months ago (2 children) Private until apple gets a subpoena from a prosecutor in some medieval christo-fascist red state trying to turn a miscarriage into a murder charge. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 3 months ago Apple employs on-device storage. Don’t use iCloud backup. I don’t know how the listed apps work, but if there’s a cloud sync, the same thing applies to them - and they’re less able to fight it should they choose to. permalink fedilink source parent [–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 3 months ago I mean, Apple also provides E2EE cloud backups. Assuming it is properly encrypted without backdoors, Apple could only “comply” with a subpoena by turning over the encrypted data blob. The feddy bois would only get the digital equivalent of white noise unless they could decrypt it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 3 months ago Apple employs on-device storage. Don’t use iCloud backup. I don’t know how the listed apps work, but if there’s a cloud sync, the same thing applies to them - and they’re less able to fight it should they choose to. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 3 months ago I mean, Apple also provides E2EE cloud backups. Assuming it is properly encrypted without backdoors, Apple could only “comply” with a subpoena by turning over the encrypted data blob. The feddy bois would only get the digital equivalent of white noise unless they could decrypt it. permalink fedilink source parent