Defending your right to control your personal information
Fertility apps collect deeply sensitive data about consumers’ sex lives, health, emotional states and menstrual cycles. And many of them are intended for use by children as young as 13. An analysis by UNSW’s Katharine Kemp has uncovered a number of concerning practices by these apps including: confusing and misleading privacy messages, a lack of choice in how data are used, inadequate de-identification measures when data are shared with other organisations, and retention of data for years even after a consu
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