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, using a browser with increased security and adjusting your settings so browsers don’t remember search history or cookies can help keep your data safe since it will be harder to trace back to you. Minella points out that there’s, police can get basically any digital data from your devices that they want, either through the courts or by purchasing it.
“It’s inappropriate to tell individual people that they are responsible for this bad privacy violation,” Lia Holland, the Campaign and Communications Director at, which focuses on digital rights, says, adding that a culture of surveillance and “lazy coding” are to blame. “It’s totally unreasonable to expect people to read the fine print on every app that they install. The entire concept of consent in this country and on the Internet is broken.
She calls period tracking apps a “kind of canary in the coal mine when it comes to the total lack of federal data privacy rights in the United States.” “Activists and other more marginalized people have been sounding the alarm for many many years…how much our personal data has been exploited without really our knowledge or any sort of meaningful consent on our part just by nature of using the Internet,” she says.
Data privacy in general has been a concern for many Americans, particularly after it was revealed that personal data from
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