Early final yr, the fertility app Flo settled with the FTC after it was caught sharing customers’ delicate well being info with corporations like Facebook, Google, and a bevy of selling corporations. Flo’s not essentially distinctive in that regard: researchers have found loads of different widespread apps within the reproductive area freely sharing customers’ information for revenue, with minimal oversight from anybody. The nation’s most important well being privateness legislation, HIPAA, doesn’t apply to apps or web sites, which implies the one factor stopping them from sharing your deets is, nicely, a change of coronary heart (or an FTC go well with).

Even should you don’t essentially inform these apps that you simply’re planning on an abortion, the oldsters getting information from these apps can simply suss that out by other means. Just to be on the secure facet, you’re higher off deleting these apps, ASAP.