355 400 1112 | Trying to get pregnant using a menstrual tracker app? This is what happens to your health data, January 23, 2020

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/01/23/period-tracker-apps-privacy-concerns/4546797002/
https://archive.md/rOC3l

If you are one of the millions of women who uses period tracker apps to better your chances of having a baby, to prevent pregnancy or just to monitor menstruation, are the risks of sharing sensitive health information about your reproductive cycle worth the benefits?

That’s the issue raised by a new review of five popular period tracker apps by Consumer Reports' Digital Lab, which tests apps to see how well they protect consumers’ privacy and data. The organization's lab found that information gathered by period tracker apps is shared with marketers to target advertising and, in some cases, even more broadly.

Sexy = 35. Ovaries = 35

Women check in daily with period tracker apps to help navigate pregnancy and childbirth, infertility and menopause, entrusting these apps with a massive amount of highly personal data which is NOT protected under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), a federal law that restricts with whom healthcare providers can share your data.

 Pregnant = 121

In exchange for finding out what day of the month they are fertile or when to expect their period, women volunteer sensitive information about their sex drive, medications and mood, revealing how often they have sex and how much of it is unprotected, if they’ve had a miscarriage or if they're headed for menopause.

And that information can be used in ways women don’t intend or anticipate and may not even be aware of, such as determining interest rates on loans or how much they will be charged for life insurance or if they're eligible for it at all, Dena Mendelsohn, Consumer Reports’ senior counsel on privacy and technology policy, told USA TODAY.

No amount of data privacy practices can / will protect any sensitive data. Whatever information you put out there online, albeit personal or otherwise, will forever leave an internet footprint.

There are a lot of not so nice people out in this world, with a gross majority who . . do not have your best interests at heart . . .