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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Hey government perverts. Keep out of panties that are not on your own ass or your partner's. And ask before you dive in. You're disgusting!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My wife uses a spreadsheet and connected it to her calendar. Seems pretty accurate.

It is a modified version of this:

http://www.alizaaufrichtig.com/period-tracker

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Shit which reminds me. Now I have to stop using the app… and delete it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don’t know if they’re already doing this, but they need to find ways to make security so robust that it is architecturally impossible for the business to handover useful data.

And here’s hoping courts continue to allow people to plead the 5th and not fork over passwords. If that protection falls, I don’t know how you’d design a digital workaround that would keep people out of contempt of court charges.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Not a choice they can make, if they have the data then the government can compel them to turn it over

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't know much about menstrual cycles. Wouldn't it be easier and just as effective to track with pen and paper?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

nah. Think about how good computers are at pattern recognition and long term storage for analysis. Far superior to a pen and paper

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

The main service my period tracker provides is a notification telling me "hey, it's PMS time. If you're emo it's ok, it's probably just hormones and not the real end of the world. You're also likely to hyperfixate on something. Pull out your knitting a fixate on that, instead of risking fixating on something someone said off-handedly a decade ago that now makes you cry".

(The message is user-configurable. Mine doesn't say that verbatum, but that's the gist.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago
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