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.
I mean I won’t argue that paper isn’t safest in terms of privacy, because I would be wrong, but the app is open source and doesn’t store data outside of the phone so it should be the second safest way.
Though, I’m upset about Maya (I think initially it was called cycles or something like that) how it started similarly (although it wasn’t open source) and transformed into a piece of shit.
That would be very hard to verify for most users. So the perceived risk can be high. Most people aren’t going through source code or compiling the code themselves. Most are trusting the open source community to tell them it’s safe.
Where as pen and paper, the risks are apparent to most people. It also severely limits the people who can access the information. Keeping out those that would sell or trade it. For a third party to access pen and paper they either need to trick you in person or break and enter.
Most businesses aren’t going to take those risks. But they will steal your data from an app. Many businesses primary operation is stealing data from apps.
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Software - in general - is too dangerous to use at this time. Pen & paper for now.
I mean I won’t argue that paper isn’t safest in terms of privacy, because I would be wrong, but the app is open source and doesn’t store data outside of the phone so it should be the second safest way.
Though, I’m upset about Maya (I think initially it was called cycles or something like that) how it started similarly (although it wasn’t open source) and transformed into a piece of shit.
That would be very hard to verify for most users. So the perceived risk can be high. Most people aren’t going through source code or compiling the code themselves. Most are trusting the open source community to tell them it’s safe.
Where as pen and paper, the risks are apparent to most people. It also severely limits the people who can access the information. Keeping out those that would sell or trade it. For a third party to access pen and paper they either need to trick you in person or break and enter.
Most businesses aren’t going to take those risks. But they will steal your data from an app. Many businesses primary operation is stealing data from apps.
Better use invisible ink, too, just to be sure.