Privacy experts are increasingly concerned about how data collected from period-tracking apps, could potentially be used to penalize anyone seeking or considering an abortion.
that found the app informed Facebook when a user was having their period or if they informed the app that they intended to get pregnant.
In a statement to NPR, period-tracking app Clue said"any data you track in Clue about pregnancies, pregnancy loss or abortion, is kept private and safe." As a European company, the company said it is obligated to apply"special protections" to reproductive health data, per European law. "If I lived in a state where abortion was actively being criminalized, I would not use a period tracker — that's for sure," she said.
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