Even before the supreme court decision to overturn Roe v Wade, the trend to ditch the apps began amid fears of prosecution
. Under the settlement, Flo must undergo an independent review of its privacy policy and obtain user permissions before sharing personal health information. Flo did not admit any wrongdoing.that it will soon be launching an ‘Anonymous mode’ that can help keep users’ data safe in any circumstances.
“This way, period or birth control data is only saved locally to a person’s phone and can be deleted at any time by deleting the app.” Eva Blum-Dumontet, a tech policy consultant, said, “It is normal that in times of concern, people are looking differently at technology and apps that we trusted. “They should never have owned so much data in the first place. If they adopted practices like storing data locally and minimizing the data to what’s strictly necessary we wouldn’t be having this debate now. It’s not too late for them to do the right thing,” she said.
Melissa, a 27-year-old mother from Texas who is goingby only her first name to not jeopardize her employment, said she deleted the app because she fears that when she travels, her state could use her missed period data against her.
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