With Roe v. Wade in jeopardy, it's important to know what could incriminate you.
Here's how it works: Because you use period-tracking app data to see when you're ovulating, track your cycle, and monitor period-related symptoms, it's possible the data you input could be used to predict when you'd likely fall pregnant. And in the case you have an abortion,"it could possibly be used to prove that an individual became pregnant and eventually did not have a child — or to prove when specifically someone became pregnant," Bellin says.
Legally, there is no law in place that would restrict private companies from turning over data to the government.Since period-tracking apps have no HIPAA protection, this means app developers do not have to protect your personal information.
As for what period-tracking apps are doing in the midst of all this? TBD. When POPSUGAR reached out to— an ovulation calendar, period tracker, and pregnancy app — to see what it was doing to make users feel safer using its platform, it was unable to comment on the specifics. Instead, it shared that it"firmly believe[s] women's health data should be held with the utmost privacy and care.
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