Lifehacker: This Period-Tracking App Actually Keeps Your Data Private. “Period tracking is a simple job that plenty of apps can do. But most apps these days—including those that track health data—store information about you on their own servers and sometimes even share that data with advertisers. The Mozilla Foundation has tested several of the most popular period-tracking apps, and it […]
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/304457/ How digital innovation is transforming women’s healthcare in Kenya #FemTech #Headlines #Health #healthcare #HowDigitalInnovationIsTransformingWomen’sHealthcareInKenya #Kenya #MenstrualCycles #Pregnancies
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WNBA fans react in disgust to news that men are betting on players’ menstrual cycles
In a trend dubbed “demeaning” by women’s basketball fans, some sports bettors are attempting to forecast WNBA players’…
#NewsBeep #News #WNBA #Betting #BreannaStewart #CA #Canada #menstrualcycles #NewYorkLiberty #Sports #WNBAfans #WNBAplayers #women’sbasketballfans
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Reuters: Google, Flo Health to pay $56 million in period-tracking app privacy case. “Google and app developer Flo Health will pay $56 million to settle a class action claiming they violated the privacy of millions of Flo app users by collecting information about their menstrual health cycles and using it for targeted advertising.”
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…Ms. Waters, who recently co-wrote a #Heritage report on infertility.… has proposed directing the #NIH to expand its study of infertility & reproductive health conditions, including endometriosis. She has also proposed using govt funds to…*educate* #women on their #MenstrualCycles & their “natural fertility,” such as cycle-charting courses that many conservative #Christian women use to try to prevent pregnancy without using birth control [idiotic].
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One proposal shared w/aides would reserve 30% of scholarships for the Fulbright program, the prestigious, govt-backed international fellowship, for applicants who are #married or have #children.
Another would give a $5k “baby bonus” to every American mother after delivery.
A third calls on the govt to fund programs that *educate* #women on their #MenstrualCycles — in part so they can better understand when they are ovulating & able to conceive.
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People who do #PeriodTracking and are concerned about data #privacy, I am curious-- what is your relationship to tracking on paper?
Boosts and comments welcome.
#MenstrualCycles #Fertility #PeriodTrackers #AbortionIsHealthcare
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Modern lives are messing up #menstrualcycles—earlier starts, more irregularity
Mean age of first period fell from 12.5 in participants born between 1950-1969 to 11.9 in participants born 2000-2005. Between 1950 -2005, percentage of people obtaining regularity within two years fell from 76.3% to 56%. Authors of study point to environmental factors, #endocrine-disrupting chemicals, metals, air pollutants, dietary patterns, psychosocial stress, adverse childhood experiences.
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Menstrual cycles vary
Irregularity a danger
Heart health needs care#menstrualcycles #hearthealth #afib #womenshealth #haiku #poetry
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Legislation moving in the #Florida House would ban discussion of #MenstrualCycles and other human sexuality topics in elementary grades.
The bill sponsored by #Republican Rep. #StanMcClain would restrict public school instruction on human sexuality, sexually transmitted diseases and related topics to grades 6 through 12.
#Women #Puberty #Education
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Something many (me included) did not originally realise, was that the temperature sensor on the Galaxy Watch was not intended to display "body temperature". Firstly for the reason that it is only skin temperature (not body core temperature) and secondly that it was really intended to help compliment identifying sleep cycles etc.
So now the feature will be used, in partnership with Natural Cycles, in order to provide the most accurate menstrual tracking possible. There is also a setting on Health Connection to define what gets synced or shared to other apps, so it is possible to disable that and keep the data local (for the USA obviously due to legal issues there).
See Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 and Galaxy Watch 5 Pro will gain temperature-based cycle tracking
#technology #health #GalaxyWatch #menstrualcyclesThe feature will come in partnership with Natural Cycles in order to provide the most accurate tracking possible.
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Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 and Galaxy Watch 5 Pro will gain temperature-based menstrual cycle tracking
Wrist with a round Galaxy Watch Something many (me included) did not originally realise, was that the temperature sensor on the Galaxy Watch was not intended to display “body temperature”. Firstly for the reason that it is only skin temperature (not […]