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Period tracking apps are creating more harms than benefits: Apps pose risks to health as well as privacy and require greater scrutiny (bmjgroup.com)
submitted 1 month ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1436314/period-tracking-apps-are-creating-more-harms-than-benefits-apps-pose-risks-to-health-as

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[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

digital cycle tracking technologies also come with serious risks, including wasted time and labour, unwanted surveillance, risks to health data privacy, and may distract from or even threaten efforts to advance women’s health

Those don't seem like such serious risks… privacy, yes; but that's an overall huge problem in current year. I would be more concerned about your TV recording every conversation you have about your reproductive organs than an app tracking one aspect of it.

Wasted time is not a serious risk or a harm; it is an opportunity cost.

[–] gastroglizzy@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago

I think the better point is that these criticisms could be applied to nearly any phone app.

[–] veryblandusername@fedinsfw.app 4 points 1 month ago

These apps are all interconnected in that everything gets sold and eventually ends up in the Palantir databse entry for you.

They are all dangerous.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, this seems like a sort of position paper for a medical association. Here it's less about serious harm and more about a general lack of benefits.