Your Period Tracker Is (Probably) Spying on You

high · Wired · Andy Greenberg, Dell Cameron, Lily Hay Newman · 18 Jul 2026 · 10:30 UTC · Surveillance & Privacy · 1 min read

Summary

Period tracking apps represent mass surveillance of intimate bodily data with documented privacy violations and potential for discriminatory use by states and employers, qualifying as dystopian surveillance infrastructure.

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