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> no access to network ?
Android and iOS developers need to explicitly request network access in their app's configurations.
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#202Probably the best one-liner fix in law I can think of, is to make it a imprisonable felony to give money to someone or an organization for the purpose of speaking a particular message as their own, and accepting money in exchange for speaking a message as your own. Basically ban advertising, or at least make each commercial basically say "General Motors has paid us to tell you that ... ... ..." instead of the sexy se…
At least in the US, you are going to run into problems with the First Amendment (eg Central Hudson Test).
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Some disorders more or less require tracking to make them diagnosable and their symptoms managable (e.g. PMDD). Managing tracking with paper is ofc possible, but apps allow for reminders and gamification that help on challenging days.
Sure, I'm not saying categorically don't just that people especially in the US and other countries that are having backslides on reproductive rights should think really hard about using period tracking apps if they don't have a strong reason to like you mentioned and even in those cases consider a more deniable and private option.
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#204If anyone is interested in a privacy focused tracking app that stores all your data locally, I make an app called Reflect [0] whose sole purpose is this, plus on-device analysis. We’re working on a menstrual tracking feature right now and it’s pretty far along. We’ve just released an anomaly detection feature as well. [0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...
Do you have a link to the Android app?
Unfortunately no android yet, but you can track progress here: https://changemap.co/ntl/reflect/task/9239-android-version-o...
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Lizelle Gonzalez was arrested and jailed for this in Texas.
It turned out that she was put in jail mistakenly for a couple of days — and is getting up to $1M compensation for the judicial mistake. How is that “women get imprisoned for abortion”? Something that looks good in a clickbait title, but actually shows proper functioning of legal system instead.
Because she was literally put in jail after being charged with murder for having an abortion. Full stop.
The fact that the prosecutors got the facts wrong and still threw her in jail is actually evidence that the legal system is not functioning properly. In a properly functioning legal system, she wouldn't have been arrested in the first place, but that's a different conversation.
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regardless of what apple/google allow officially, the cell carrier also has tracking locations. if you're going out to do something that you would want to hide your location, it's best to just leave the device at home. get a burner phone paid for in cash by someone not you doing the transaction.
Just pointing out this is an all-or-nothing strawman argument summed up as: if you can't have it all, don't bother trying. It's fallacious. That is all. :^)
I disagree to it being a strawman. If you are doing something where you location being identified could put you in a spot of bother, do not carry anything that can track your location. There's just no way around it. If you want to use wavy hands to pretend tracking of location isn't so bad, then you go ahead and call it a strawman. For people whose physical safety depends on not being tracked, it is not a strawman.
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So you want the state to investigate every single miscarriage? Where did "mysterious circumstances" come from? I didn't see it mentioned anywhere in this thread... Do you think a miscarriage is a "mysterious circumstance"? I can only assume so, given your response. That seems like the result of what could only be tremendous ignorance.
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It's not a strawman. You said "mysterious circumstances" when we are talking about miscarriages. Do you think they are the same or not? It's a very simple question.
>Do you not want police to investigate reports of someone disposing of human remains in a dumpster?
What does this have to do with a miscarriage????
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#208For those wondering why this is a safety issue, in many American states abortion or "fetal harm" is considered murder. You can be imprisoned, theoretically for life. This is of course a rapidly evolving area of law since the fall of Roe v. Wade. Having one's menstrual data available for subpoena is therefore quite a literal safety risk. "At least 38 states authorize homicide charges for causing pregnancy loss" https:…
As a clarification for the "I didn't do anything wrong, I have nothing to hide" crowd, most of the time when someone is pregnant and then suddenly not pregnant, the cause is a miscarriage. And most people would go see a doctor if there is a lot of pain or bleeding. An overzealous prosecutor (usually running for election) is going to make the claim that you went to a doctor and now you aren't pregnant, you must have m…
Yep now instead of menstration cycles and abortion, replace it with antisemitism or grass-eaters or any other political disposition. You may be getting denied jobs because of posts you made to an anonymous imageboard which you thought were anonymous, but something like your Grammarly extension sent all your typed text up the pipe and now the corporate-state squid knows you're a wrongthinker full of thoughtcrime.
Intel agents look for blackmail to gain leverage over targets. I wonder how many security cleared personnel are going to be vulnerable to Chinese and Iranian extortion, once a database run by one of the cloud-based cannabis CRM+POS companies gets leaked with all that customer and purchase info. I am seriously considering making a fake ID for pot shops, so they quit typing my name into their cloud-connected fucking databases!
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The report in the OP raises valid concerns about SDKs from third parties, including Google and Facebook. Your own site showcases the Reflect SDK which is, I quote: > The Reflect SDK is the iOS framework that powers the Reflect – Track Anything app and is designed to help you: > > Create forms to track customer product usage and experience > Collect customer biometric data [...] Source: https://ntl.ai/products/ Let's…
This is a totally valid concern. Initially we were considering augmenting our income with a B2B model to license the library we’ve built, but that didn’t pan out and our priorities have changed, so we solely work on the apps for customers now. I actually forgot this was even on our website and, since we aren’t trying to offer those services or license anymore, I’ve removed them.
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You should clarify that these are women who deliberately induce a miscarriage (ie. a home abortion) or whose extraordinarily reckless and dangerous behaviours result in a miscarriage that may or may not have been deliberately induced, but either way are unconscionable and directly responsible for the child's death. You don't do your cause any favours when you present these cases as "miscarriages", knowing full well t…
Their reply was to "I couldn’t find instances of women being imprisoned for getting an abortion." Replace "You" with "I"?
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