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.

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.

  • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1312·
    10 months ago

    It’s 2024. People still assume apps installed on their phones aren’t siphoning every single 1 and 0 on your phone including your texts and recordings of your voice calls and then selling that data to a 3rd party advertising firm.

    Why in FUCKS name would you put your menstrual cycle data on an app that some stranger made?

    • Plague_Doctor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      Agreed. Although I think the usefulness of the apps are aimed at tracking fertility to help people get pregnant. Which is even more scummy that they sell the data.

    • Thorned_Rose@kbin.social
      1·
      10 months ago

      I think you may be way underestimating the number of people who have no idea the software they use is spying on them.

    • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      11·
      10 months ago

      If it’s under free licence like MIT, GPL or alike app can be inspected what it does and anything out of place we can remove.