The period tracking app Ovia has been widely criticized for requesting that users identify their country and state of residence, leaving some to vow to leave the app. Concerned users fear this data ...

It’s 2016, and women still don’t feel comfortable talking openly about periods. In fact, one Internet survey captured 5,000 different euphemisms for monthly menstruation that call it everything but a ...

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If you’ve been on social media lately, you might have seen some debate about whether you should delete your period tracker app. While it’s not the first time this discourse has arisen (it took off ...

Less than a week after Flo tweeted about its plans to launch an "anonymous mode" to its period-tracking app, the company revealed the new feature will be available in the coming weeks. Flo said users ...

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the security and privacy of reproductive health apps have sparked concerns, researchers wrote in a new study. The study began out of concern that law ...

Elizabeth Ha created the privacy-minded menstrual tracking app Monthly last year, after failing to find an option that felt safe enough to her following the Dobbs decision. (Submitted) After the ...

Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States on Wednesday, Nov. 6. That same day, a viral post on X warned that some of the personal data shared on apps that track menstrual cycles ...

Several menstrual cycle-tracking mobile apps share sensitive information with Facebook without user consent, a new Privacy International report found. The ...

I officially began tracking my period via an app one year before my wedding. While my menstrual cycle has never been abnormal, I was trying to predict whether or not I would be bleeding on the one day ...