Apps pose risks to health as well as privacy and require greater scrutiny Digital menstrual tracking risks creating more harm than benefit and requires greater scrutiny, warn experts in The BMJ today. Widely promoted to women and girls on social media and by tech firms, menstrual tracking apps and other “femtech” tools claim to scientifically
digital cycle tracking technologies also come with serious risks, including wasted time and labour, unwanted surveillance, risks to health data privacy, and may distract from or even threaten efforts to advance women’s health
Those don’t seem like such serious risks… privacy, yes; but that’s an overall huge problem in current year. I would be more concerned about your TV recording every conversation you have about your reproductive organs than an app tracking one aspect of it.
Wasted time is not a serious risk or a harm; it is an opportunity cost.
Those don’t seem like such serious risks… privacy, yes; but that’s an overall huge problem in current year. I would be more concerned about your TV recording every conversation you have about your reproductive organs than an app tracking one aspect of it.
Wasted time is not a serious risk or a harm; it is an opportunity cost.
I think the better point is that these criticisms could be applied to nearly any phone app.
These apps are all interconnected in that everything gets sold and eventually ends up in the Palantir databse entry for you.
They are all dangerous.
Yeah, this seems like a sort of position paper for a medical association. Here it’s less about serious harm and more about a general lack of benefits.