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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Intimate data, including when people have had sex, is being shared with Facebook, a study from Privacy International has suggested.
It included details such as what contraception was used, when periods were due and the type of symptoms experienced.
Since the investigation, one app said it was changing its privacy policies.
Menstruation apps collect some of the most intimate data imaginable - from general health, to information about sex, moods, what the user eats, drinks and even what sanitary products she uses.
In exchange for this, the app will offer the user the dates of the month she is most fertile or when to expect her next period.
Sharing to Facebook happens via the social network's software development kit (SDK), tools that can be used by apps to help them make money by reaching advertisers who, in turn, provide users with personalised ads.
PI found the most popular apps in this category - Period Tracker, Period Track Flo and Clue Period Tracker did not share data with Facebook.
But others - such as Maya by Plackal Tech (which has 5 million downloads on Google Play), MIA by Mobapp Development Limited (1 million downloads) and My Period Tracker by Linchpin Health (more than 1 million downloads) - did.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 11 2019, @02:52AM (4 children)
Come on fellas, how about we cut out the specific pronouns here and stick with something approved as gender neutral.
If a person identifies as he, then their menstrual cycle should be tagged as such.
Sheez. Do we really have to remind everyone all the plurry time.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 11 2019, @04:01AM (3 children)
Wow. This is a serious fail.
I know you were trying to be obnoxious and hammer the whole "gender identity" thing.
The really amusing part is that TFS didn't use any pronouns at all. Rather they referred to the folks with functioning uteri as "users" and didn't apply any gendered pronouns *at all*.
Damn, you're stupid.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 11 2019, @04:16AM
Erm, reading fail? Regardless of what we think of them TFS definitely uses gendered pronouns... "... what sanitary products she uses ... dates of the month she is most fertile or when to expect her next period."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 11 2019, @09:48AM
I am not GP, and I am not attempting to troll or flame, although I agree that GP was. Your point is a good one that TFA does stay appropriately gender neutral.
But the lame attempt does bring up one thing to consider: In the transsexual world there are Female to Male transitioners who have not had surgery. Some do not want surgery. Yet they identify as male. This is one instance where you would have a man who does have periods.
I never thought about that until I met a MtF who pointed out that she still has a prostate which must be examined.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday September 11 2019, @05:50PM
Triggered by his own shadow!