A data expert is warning the woman to use encrypted period trackers and only sign up using alias email accounts to protect their privacy in the wake of Roe v Wade’s overturn.
Mico Yuk, data expert for Count, said while the data is good, women still need to take precautions to protect their privacy.
Yuk, who has been using a period tracker for six years, said period trackers track “overall health” and collect a lot of data from users. Tracking apps can also trace sexual activity and determine whether or not women intend to become pregnant through user input.
She now recommends women use encrypted trackers — like Period Plus or Natural Cycles — and only use apps that explicitly state they will not sell user data. She also recommends checking phone settings to see if an app is encrypted.
Yuk also suggested that women use an alias account when using health tracking apps and looking up health questions. But more importantly, she advises avoiding using a “search engine-connected” email address, she told DailyMail.com.
Fears about how period-tracking apps can expose women if they have abortions have risen following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v Wade. Young women across the United States have been told to delete the apps from their phones, fearing their data will be tracked and prosecuted in states that have now criminalized abortions.
Mico Yuk, a data expert for Count, (pictured) is warning women of childbearing age to be smart about data protection after the controversial Supreme Court overturning of Roe v. wade
After the reversal, many women jumped to delete their periods (stock image) from their phones over fears that state governments could use their data to find out if they were pregnant in criminal cases against those who had abortions
Yuk encourages women who use period tracking apps to use Natural Cycles and Period Plus, which are committed to protecting user data
One of Yuk’s recommended apps, Natural Cycles has promised its users, who pay a subscription to use the app, to “never sell your data”.
“We charge a subscription to protect you and your data,” he said on his Twitter page. “The privacy of our users is paramount to us.”
Yuk also said Period Plus would not sell user data.
Another way to protect your data is to switch from Google Chrome — which owns your search history — to Firefox, which is “privacy-focused,” Yuk said.
Although Chrome offers an incognito option, Yuk advises against using it because “you have to remember every time” to toggle it.
Chrome, in general, is “filled with a lot of data”, especially when the browser is connected to an email address, Yuk told DailyMail.com.
When it comes to creating an alias for signing up for period-tracking apps or browsing online health questions, she recommends using Hushmail.com and Fastmail.com, which she says are well worth it. low monthly service fees.
“The key is that it’s not tied to any search engine, that it’s encrypted and secure,” she told DailyMail.com.
A simple search for “missed period” or other related terms, such as abortion clinics and health-related questions, would be collected under the email address, making it easy to backtrack.
Six of nine justices vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, immediately threatening millions of American women’s access to abortion-related health care
When asked how companies could sell health data, such as menstrual cycle information, without violating HIPPA, she said she “couldn’t” talk about the legal aspect, but that she didn’t know how the States would go about it since the reversal was so quick.
Yuk also said companies have more of a “moral than legal obligation” to protect user data and often sell data because it’s “cheaper” than fighting subpoena.
Period tracker Flo, which had 38 million users at one point, was caught selling user data without permission about two years ago after promising to secure private information. It was later discovered that it shared sensitive information of millions of users with third-party apps.
Data sold by Flo has been served on several major named platforms, such as Facebook and Google, and has influenced algorithms and targeted advertising.
Other devices, such as Google Home, have been accused of collecting records that also influence the data collected and presented to users, which can also be used against those charged with the crime of abortion.
The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24, which allowed many states to activate trigger laws and begin banning abortions as early as six weeks — when fetuses develop a heartbeat.
Recently, a 10-year-old girl from Ohio became pregnant with her rapist’s baby and was forced to travel to Indiana for an abortion.
Protesters took to the streets outside the US Supreme Court (pictured) just hours after the upheaval, calling on judges to realize ‘motherhood should be a choice’
The story became controversial after the Ohio AG and governor’s offices claimed neither had “heard a whisper” about the story and there was no “biological evidence.” “of the case.
The 27-year-old rapist has since been taken into custody and admitted to sexually abusing the child at least twice.
Since the reversal, women in nearly 30 states are now at risk of losing their right to abortion. Demonstrators across the country took to the streets to protest the upheaval and demand federal protection for the right to access abortion-related health care.
The Biden administration has been prompted to work on federal protections, but so far nothing has been done.
The 26 States Where Abortion Will Likely Become Illegal Now The Supreme Court Has Overturned Roe vs Wade
The 26 states where abortion will likely become illegal if SCOTUS overturns Roe vs Wade after leaked draft notice showed majority of justices backed ruling
More than half of all US states have some sort of abortion ban law likely to take effect now that Roe v Wade has been overturned by the US Supreme Court.
According to pro-reproduction rights group The Guttmacher Institute, there are 26 states that will likely make abortions illegal now that the Supreme Court has overturned the landmark 1973 ruling.
18 have existing abortion bans that have already been ruled unconstitutional, four have delay bans and four are likely to pass laws once Roe v Wade is overturned, the organization found.
The 18 states that have already banned abortion almost completely include Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, ‘Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia. , Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Additionally, Georgia, Iowa, Ohio, and South Carolina all have laws prohibiting abortion after six weeks.
Florida, Indiana, Montana and Nebraska will likely pass bills when Roe v Wade is overturned, the Guttmacher Institute said.
Bans in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, West Virginia, and Wisconsin all have prior laws to Roe v Wade which became unenforceable after the 1973 Supreme Court decision – which would now take effect – the federal legal precedent established in Roe was overturned.
Arkansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi and Texas have other bans that will go into effect if the law is overturned. These were passed after Roe v Wade.
They are joined by Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and Wyoming in passing such laws.
States that will limit abortions based on the length of a patient’s pregnancy include Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, North Dakota and Ohio.
There are four states that have laws that say abortion is not a constitutionally protected right: Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, and West Virginia.
