Which is why I’m tracking my perimenopause on one despite being a dude, to make the data less useful.
Fdroid store has several period tracking apps that don’t track anything more than your cycle.
pen and paper (or a fucking text document) is also notoriously unlikely to send your data to the pentagon
True. But pen and paper are also notoriously used as evidence in court cases, and it’s state laws, not the Pentagon (for now) that are prosecuting women for not being baby machines.
Unfortunately doctors don’t tend to be foss enthusiasts. In general the people and professions touching the most sensible data are not also worried about loss of privacy, even if logically I feel like they should be?
Until there’s a huge momentum for software-that-respects-people, most will just use the same app as their friend or the one suggested by someone in charge
Doctors don’t prescribe a specific period tracker app. People just use the first app they see in the Google store.
when you imagine stuff like a doctor slapping someone for using foss, does your brain also play the benny hill soundtrack?
I’ve been saying it for years, but get no traction unless I’m preaching to the choir - these health data tracking programs are not your friend, and your MD shouldn’t need them to competently render medical services to you. I’m staring to feel like Cassandra of Troy the way that I’m predicting trends and inevitable outcomes to people who don’t give a shit about their own personal safety.
The data is not secure, and the systems which purport to protect them are so lackluster that they bear comparison to guarding piles of meat from wet dogs with a paper fence. This information will reveal compromising details about your personal life which are a blackmailer’s wet dream, to say nothing of data aggregators, and the possible application by something so commonplace as insurance companies to approve/deny coverage.
Worse yet, in this case, is the application by “bad actors” beyond the government(s) where legality of sexual healthcare is in flux (see: gender affirming care, abortion, homosexuality, etc.). It bears considering that rapists with access to said information could use it not only to track their victim’s location, and other particulars, but to help them avoid/succeed in impregnating the victim in question. This shit needs to go, it’s a five alarm blaze with no smoke.
They did that on purpose. How do I know? Because they are corporations. That is fucking obvious when you understand it.
You think I mean that one way and ignore the obvious. I am not going to tell you what to think and how. Figure it out yourself if you feel fucking anything to that like it’s a fucking noose alert.
You don’t understand because the Oz told you some gorram shit, and you believed fucking anything. Sucker City doxxed that because you asked them to. ZzZzZzzzZZzzz
Edit: “You” defined by any reader, not the particular person posting what I’m proceeding the logic and notes with.
Hasn’t been updated in a few years but there’s log28 on f-droid.
can@sh.itjust.works isn’t there also Drip as an open source option?
Apparently there is. Thank you.
