Cambridge researchers urge public health bodies like the NHS to provide trustworthy, research-driven alternatives to platforms driven by profit.
Women deserve better than to have their menstrual tracking data treated as consumer data - Prof Gina Neff
Smartphone apps that track menstrual cycles are a “gold mine” for consumer profiling, collecting information on everything from exercise, diet and medication to sexual preferences, hormone levels and contraception use.
This is according to a new report from the University of Cambridge’s Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, which argues that the financial worth of this data is “vastly underestimated” by users who supply profit-driven companies with highly intimate details in a market lacking in regulation.
The report’s authors caution that cycle tracking app (CTA) data in the wrong hands could result in risks to job prospects, workplace monitoring, health insurance discrimination and cyberstalking – and limit access to abortion.
They call for better governance of the booming ‘femtech’ industry to protect users when their data is sold at scale, arguing that apps must provide clear consent options rather than all-or-nothing data collection, and urge public health bodies to launch alternatives to commercial CTAs.
If you have an iPhone just use the Apple Health app. It works great and the data is encrypted and never shared with anyone.
Wrong, Apple Health fails to include a libre software license text file. We do not control it, anti-libre software. Some still believe anything Apple tell them. Others here have already given a replacement for this scam.
What fact did I get wrong? Be specific.
Anti-libre software, Apple Health, bans us from proving this and worse, bans us from fixing it. We do not control it. 🚩
And which phone has a libre radio baseband? Perhaps extremism ad absurdum is not useful advice.
You’re doing nothing to fix this. This is how those scam apps keep scamming.
Sis thinks getting drip, libre software, is ‘extremism’ lmao
Here’s another: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/19346855
Everyone else has figured it out but some do not want a solution, just parrot Apple.
I didn’t realize those were baseband firmwares. Neat!
Some people never learn.
What baseband firmware do you use?
Not wrong. You’re arguing a different point than what they said.
Already trapped in iOS? More anti-libre apps make escape harder.
I don’t disagree with that, but the point here was freedom from advertisers and general data privacy, not data portability.
But there is an “export all data” feature in health, though.
Lol sure apple doesnt use that data internally. /s
Yes, probably someone would like to, but they can’t.
I don’t know anything about health app in particular, but they posted some cool methods for finding highlight photos in your library using what they call “differential privacy” on their research blog.
https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/scenes-differential-privacy
Read my first comment again.
Read the original comment again.