The introduction of women’s health apps was to act as a reminder and provide help for many women’s problem.
Instead of going to gynaecologist every now and then for even smaller matters, women’s health app was introduced to save time and act as an adviser to health issues that women might find hard to share.
Though it has benefits, its side effects are more numerous.
Why?
Employers and health insurers are using family-planning apps to gather intimate information about your fertility, menstrual cycle and pregnancy.
Your vagina has been digitized. So have your ovaries. So has your period.
It has led to the rise of what has been called “menstrual surveillance”. Corporations are increasingly aware that female bodies are temples of lucrative information, and are exploiting this data in new and ever-more-dystopian ways.
That data includes intimate information about your fertility, your menstrual cycle and the progression of your pregnancy.
Everyone has secret. So to women. For that reason, you would rather use the traditional ways of monitoring your menstruation.