The team behind menstrual health and period tracking app Clue has said it will not disclose users’ data to American authorities, following Donald Trump’s reelection.

The message comes in response to concerns that during Trump’s second presidency, abortion bans that followed the overturn of Roe v. Wade in 2022 will worsen and states will attempt to increase menstrual surveillance in order to further restrict access to terminations.

  • sunzu2
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    722 days ago

    Every corporation registered under the US law is subject to the US law.

    If you relying on a corpo to protect your data… 🤡

    • @Zak
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      722 days ago

      Biowink GmbH is probably not a corporation registered under US law. If I had to guess, the government of Germany will not be particularly eager to force them to turn over data to the USA. The Germans take their Datenschutz very seriously.

      • sunzu2
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        222 days ago

        Great point. Then they can take the hard stance but I doubt they will not to piss off largest consumer market in the world.

        • @Zak
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          322 days ago

          They’ve already taken the hard stance. If they roll it back, they will lose the trust of their users.

            • @Zak
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              322 days ago

              I’d still echo the (current) top comment’s advice to use something open source, local, and encrypted.

    • @Unknown1234_5
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      No I’m relying on people to protect their own data, I’m saying that platforms should too. Edit: also most of the time they don’t have to turn over anything but do so willingly, they should say no unless presented with a valid warrant.

      • sunzu2
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        022 days ago

        Corpos are unreliable but yes they should at least pretend not to turn it over.

        Unless corpo is using zero knowledge set up, don’t use it is the really the only way to use a corpo service imho

        • @Unknown1234_5
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          121 days ago

          Yeah I think PIA is a golden example here. They’ve got RAM-only servers so they have no data to turn over in the first place.

          • sunzu2
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            121 days ago

            Pia the third vendor along with proton and mullvad that are considered gold standard?

            Does it have it port-forwarding?

            • @Unknown1234_5
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              120 days ago

              There is a setting that says port forwarding in the desktop and Android apps but I’ve never used it. If it helps, I did turn it on once to see what it was and it picks a port for you which afaik can be important.