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tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 07:23:36 JST tinydoctor

Men: Download the Flo App and start tracking your manstrual cycle. Screw up the data. Screw #reproductivesurveillance
#protectwomensreproductiverights #ProtectWomensRights
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flo_(app)
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1. A series of tweets, or maybe skeets: "Dear men I need you to go download an app called "Flo" and start using it chaotically. Don't ask anyone how to use it. Just use it. Just use it. The more the better. Let's Christmas tree that data." Reply: "As a software developer who loves to screw the data and a person who will do ANYTHING I can to protect women for the next 4 years, I am so excited to begin tracking my mantrual cycle" Reply: "MENSTRUAL CYCLE"
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  Flo (app)
  
  Flo is a health app that provides menstrual cycle and ovulation tracking. The application is available on iOS and Android. Application's development hubs are in London, Amsterdam and Vilnius. Flo has over 350 million downloads worldwide and 60 million monthly active users as of February 2024. In mid-2024, it reached unicorn status. Company history Flo was co-founded in 2015 by Dmitry and Yuri Gurski, in Belarus. Dmitry serves as the company's CEO. In 2016, the company raised $1 million in seed round funding from Flint Capital and Haxus Venture Fund. In 2017, Flo received an investment of $5 million from Flint Capital and model Natalia Vodianova. Vodianova also helped develop Flo's "Let’s Talk About it. Period" worldwide awareness campaign. In December of that year, Flo began working with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to spread awareness about women's reproductive and sexual health issues. Also in 2017, Flo launched a question and answer service within the app. In 2018, Flo received an investment of $6 million from Mangrove Capital Partners, with participation from Flint Capital and Haxus, giving...
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  tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 22:37:50 JST tinydoctor
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  - Jonas R. (er/ihm)
  @JonasJRichter Point taken. Creating "friction" is appealing even if it doesn't do much. I'm up for anything that throws even the tiniest wrench into the data harvest machinery.
  
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  Jonas R. (er/ihm) (jonasjrichter@mastodon.pnpde.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 22:37:52 JST Jonas R. (er/ihm)
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  @tinydoctor This is unlikely to accomplish what it intends.
  https://hachyderm.io/@hrefna/113462751547318281
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    Hrefna (DHC) (@hrefna@hachyderm.io)
    
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    In seriousness: I'm not sure what the advocacy to "download a menstrual tracking app and put nonsense data in it" is supposed to accomplish, exactly. What's the mental model of how this works? Spotting _chaos_ in data is relatively easy and filtering out that kind of thing is like an extra few minutes of friction. It's not nothing, but unless you actually know what you are doing I don't see how it is supposed to accomplish much.
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  tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 22:39:03 JST tinydoctor
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  @JonasJRichter Though it may be more therapeutic than effective. I like effective too.
  
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  tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 22:43:40 JST tinydoctor
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  @wendyg I was seduced by the cute. As an act of resistance it is at second glance more therapeutic than effective. Anything that throws the slightest wrench into the proceedings is appealing.
  
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  Wendy M. Grossman (wendyg@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 22:43:42 JST Wendy M. Grossman
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  @tinydoctor It's a cute proposal, but I don't understand how it will actually help an individual woman whose account data is demanded by the authorities in her state.
  
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  ralocycleuse (ralocycleuse@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 22:51:37 JST ralocycleuse
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  @Germo @tinydoctor https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-61952794
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    The abortion privacy dangers in period trackers and apps
    
    There are a number of concerns around data protection following the US Supreme Court's ruling on abortion.
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  Dude Germo (germo@mastodon.nl)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 22:51:38 JST Dude Germo
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  @tinydoctor And why would i do that?
  
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  ralocycleuse (ralocycleuse@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 22:52:27 JST ralocycleuse
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  @ymaster @tinydoctor https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/16/opinions/period-trackers-app-roe-abortion-ranney-yao/index.html
  "Equally, if not more problematic, is the possibility that data from period-tracking apps could be subpoenaed and used as evidence to prove a criminal loss of pregnancy. Whether non-health related data could be used to suggest that a woman had had an abortion, is unclear."
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    Opinion: The danger of period-tracking apps in a post-Roe world | CNN
    
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    Katherine Yao and Megan Ranney write that consumers and privacy experts alike are concerned that data gathered by period-tracking and other digital health apps could be used to prosecute women who seek or have abortions in the event that Roe v. Wade is overturned.
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  Y-Master (ymaster@framapiaf.org)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 22:52:28 JST Y-Master
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  @tinydoctor what's wrong with this app ?
  Why do you want to screw the data ?
  
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  CaveDave (engravecavedave@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 22:53:28 JST CaveDave
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  @tinydoctor as much fun this is ... I think it'd be better for menstruating people to use apps which don't send data at all such as Drip. That's what I'd recommend at least.
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.drip&hl=en-US
  https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/drip/id1584564949
  
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  Michael Darweesh ☑️ (mdarweesh@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 22:54:02 JST Michael Darweesh ☑️
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  @tinydoctor this sounds like something we should teach AI to do. It might be the first valuable AI task!
  
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  prasket (prasket@mastodon.seattlematrix.org)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 22:54:50 JST prasket
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  @tinydoctor done and damn I learned a lot just taking the questionnaire.
  
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  tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 23:11:45 JST tinydoctor
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  @nachtet @JonasJRichter A metaphor rather than a euphemism.
  
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  nachtet (nachtet@norden.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 23:11:46 JST nachtet
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  @tinydoctor @JonasJRichter
  I'm resisting ever so hard to asking if "tiniest wrench" was meant as a euphemism for anything. Or was it tiniest wench? 😄
  
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  Strfnurfn (earthtoneone@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 06:13:51 JST Strfnurfn
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  @tinydoctor Better: donate some money each month to https://brigidalliance.org or another org doing the work.
  The main danger of period apps is authorities accessing the data for an individual person they're investigating. Bad data isn't going to help, but funds to get out of state might.
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    The Brigid Alliance: Getting People to Abortion Care, Whatever It Takes
    
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  Gold gab ich für Eisen (nanoelquant@c.im)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 02:04:45 JST Gold gab ich für Eisen
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  @tinydoctor despite I support anti-surveillance actions, I am afraid I can't support this idea. According to the info about this program, it is so surveillance-heavy that shall plainly be avoided by all means. Developed in Belarus 🚩, obscure history regarding alleged sharing data with Facebook 🚩, "generous" ability to use "anonymous mode" after 2022 (why the hell this all was compulsory non-anonymous before?? ) 🚩 - like, what? If whoever keeps using it after all that, I wonder if a bunch of geek men trying to spoof their own data could make any difference other than slight increase of user base.
  
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  tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 02:04:45 JST tinydoctor
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  @nanoelquant Despite likes and reposts of my toot, I have come think it just seems like a fun thing to do, but will have little or no positive effect. People just want to fuck somehow with the data being used to track everyone. I didn't think it out before posting. I need to work on that.
  
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