Your Period Tracker Is (Probably) Spying on You
This article discusses privacy concerns regarding period tracking apps and the broader landscape of AI regulation and political misinformation. It highlights a Mozilla audit revealing that most period trackers share sensitive user health data with third parties.
Why it matters
As personal health data becomes increasingly commodified, users face significant privacy risks from apps that lack transparency, while AI policy struggles to keep pace with rapid technological advancement.
Since WIRED first reported in June about Meta’s NameTag face-recognition system, company executives have made opaque and conflicting comments about whether the feature even exists. We took a step back to lay out both the claims and the facts about the very real system.
In a speech on Thursday, President Donald Trump continued to push unsubstantiated and thoroughly debunked claims about interference in the 2020 US election. He even promised massive revelations in a trove of documents posted to the White House website, but the files did not prove his assertions—and in some cases actually contradicted Trump’s claims.
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