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VANCOUVER - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge says a class-action lawsuit can move forward over alleged privacy breaches against a company that made an app to track users' menstrual and fertility cycles. The ruling published online Friday says the action against Flo Health Inc. alleges the company shared users' highly personal health information with third-parties, including Facebook, Google and other companies.

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[-] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 134 points 3 months ago

free, open source, everything stored locally: https://dripapp.org/

[-] aniki@lemm.ee 25 points 3 months ago

Of all the things you most certainly do not need to upload to the cloud....................................................................

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

I mean cloud apps are popular because they are convenient. It's just a shame that they are invariably infested with toxic capitalism. And now apparently Christian fascists.

[-] Shelena@feddit.nl 15 points 3 months ago

Thanks! Was looking for something more privacy focused. I had not found this one.

[-] rmstyle@feddit.de 11 points 3 months ago

I am quite impressed by the funders, German state and Mozilla. Wow.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

im giggling like an idiot at that name

[-] Illogicalbit@lemmy.world 68 points 3 months ago

Result: “sorry we shared your personal data, here’s a check for 38 cents. “

[-] macisr@sh.itjust.works 52 points 3 months ago

Damn man, my gf pays for this app. That's how we track her days. Corpos even know when we're probably having sex now D:.

[-] max@feddit.nl 53 points 3 months ago
[-] Tick_Dracy@lemm.ee 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[-] spizzat2@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

TL;DW: The Nissan privacy policy ~~states~~ stated that they can collect and store information about your sexual activity for some reason.

Note: the page seems to have been updated to remove that wording, but you can see it archived on the Way Back Machine from when the video was released.

Edit: spelling

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[-] LucidBoi@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago

Wow, my girlfriend uses this. Time to get her a FOSS-grown solution. Fuck the corpos!

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They need to fix their SSL certificate.

[-] DeviantOvary@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Seems like they didn't set www to redirect to the main site. If you go to https://dripapp.org it works fine.

[-] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago

Come on, it is the 21st century.

Nobody should assume any other reason to create such an app than to harvest and sell personal medical data.

[-] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 3 months ago
[-] Life_inst_bad@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

I am glad I finally got my wife use this Foss alternative instated of some garbage that sends your data to a proprietary server.

[-] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago

Do you know how well it works? Maybe I could suggest it to my girlfriend if she would be interested.

[-] Life_inst_bad@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

The App (Drip) gives you after about 3 months acurate times on when the period should start. If you want accurate fertility tracking your girlfriend will have to measure her basal temperature (ar best daily) and either look out for changing cervical mucus or change in cervix opening/hardness.

[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Unless:

https://bloodyhealth.gitlab.io/

The existence of this app should be spread far and wide for every woman to use, versus the privacy invading ones that are out there.

[-] Cyberbatman@lemmings.world 30 points 3 months ago

Periodical is no wifi, no bs and stored locally on your phone storage. Also is about 5mb in size so pretty minimal. If anyone is interested here's the link https://f-droid.org/packages/de.arnowelzel.android.periodical/

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago
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[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

~~I wrote a period tracker app that also encrypts/password protects the data at rest. If you're concerned about someone taking your phone and accessing your data, it may also be worth a look.~~

~~https://github.com/cameroncros/PrivatePeriodTracker~~

~~https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cross.privateperiodtracker~~

~~Drip looks better for most people though. But they should add encryption if they dont already have it.~~

Use drip.

[-] abominable_panda@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Encryption and password protection is in the changelog for drips first version v0.0.1 - 5 years ago

I couldnt find your app on fdroid btw

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago

Huh, thats good. I scanned their website for mentions of encryption and didnt find it.

Mine isnt on fdroid, wasnt worth the effort. May as well remove from Google Play as well tbh, Drips seems all round a better option.

[-] abominable_panda@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Yep it was a struggle to find. I checked website, issues and then finally made a last attempt at the change logs. It should be advertised more for that added piece of mind.

I didnt mean to shoot your app down by the way, in case it came across that way. Ive never used these apps

Thanks for developing your version though. People like you make this community what it is :)

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 6 points 3 months ago

I've never used my app either, I lack the prerequisites :D I wrote it for my partner last time there was a thing about US cops going after the data. But I dont maintain it, so drips is the better option in general.

When drips gets caught selling data I'll revive my app :D

[-] yemmly@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

I remember back in my teenage days, I tried to track some menstruations. It didn’t end well.

[-] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 months ago

Classic mistake. You weren't rich enough.

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