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This Period-Tracking App Actually Keeps Your Data Private

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Beth Skwarecki
This Period-Tracking App Actually Keeps Your Data Private
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The Mozilla Foundation has identified Euki as a superior period-tracking app for user privacy, noting that it stores data locally rather than on company servers. This recommendation comes amid growing concerns over how health data could be used in legal proceedings regarding reproductive rights.

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It underscores the increasing importance of digital privacy and data sovereignty for users of health-tracking technology.

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Period tracking is a simple job that plenty of apps can do. But most apps these days - including those that track health data - store information about you on their own servers and sometimes even share that data with advertisers. The Mozilla Foundation has tested several of the most popular period-tracking apps, and it identified one as better than the rest at keeping your data private: Euki. Privacy is especially important for period trackers in light of the political and legal battles that surround abortion and birth control. We know that police have used other data, like messages and search history, to prosecute people for alleged abortions. It's understandable if you don't want tech companies to keep or share data about your reproductive health. Our sister site PCMag has a guide here to tracking your period privately.

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