“It’s really going to come down to seeing what data do they collect, what data do they keep, how is that data stored, how is that data potentially shared - really drilling into the technical details of each of these apps, and the changes they make.”Īccording to Flo, its new anonymous mode removes all personally identifiable information, making it impossible to connect data to someone once the mode is activated. “It’s not enough just to see that they’re saying they have an anonymous mode,” said Fox Cahn. We can give you a sort of guidance and help in predicting your periods, but we don’t have to do it by storing it,’” said Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Virginia and author of the forthcoming book “The Fight for Privacy.” “Unless they’re doing that, I’m not feeling so secure for women and girls.”Īlbert Fox Cahn, founder and executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project and a fellow at the NYU School of Law, echoed the point. “If they want to be serious about privacy commitments, they should say, ‘Within a month we delete all the data. “Any data we do collect is fully encrypted, and this will never change.”īut some privacy experts are skeptical about how much a feature like anonymous mode can separate the user from their personal health data. “Flo will never share or sell user data, and only collects data when we have a legal basis to do so and when our users have given their informed consent,” Susanne Schumacher, Flo’s data protection officer, said in a company statement last week.
If the company, which is based in London, receives an official request to identify a user by name or email, it will be unable to connect that information with their health data, Flo said. This lets users enter data into the app without adding their name, email or technical identifier. Wadeįlo, the leading menstrual cycle tracking app with 240 million users, announced an “anonymous mode” option last week. Online abortion pill interest soars after the demise of Roe v. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images) Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images In this photo illustration, a person looks at an Abortion Pill (RU-486) for unintended pregnancy from Mifepristone displayed on a smartphone on May 8, 2020, in Arlington, Virginia.
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