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.

  • @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.