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And stop using those period tracking apps. Get a notebook and a pen.

If you have kids in college in abortion hostile states? You should really be talking to them about digital and physical security when it comes to repro healthcare.

The system is becoming increasingly carceral and it's gonna target white people who are not used to being on the receiving end of such treatment.

Basically if you're white, the state really wants you to stop terminating your pregnancies.

Look at what these three Republican attorneys general are arguing in the latest mifepristone lawsuit about how the FDA depriving them of pregnant teenagers is a sovereign injury. [unlocked post] patreon.com/posts/114456742?ut

Even if you have kids in states where abortion is currently legal, that can easily change. So just talk to them about digital and physical security. Particularly if they're going to try to seek abortion care without telling you.

Arm them with information so they don't get got.

@AngryBlackLady I read they tried to pass a law in my state (GA) making IUDs murder, too. I have had an IUD for ten years, it's overdue to be swapped, but I'm now afraid to let anyone do it, because it feels less risky to have had an old one, than to have just gotten a new one. Assuming my local (rural) practice would even do it - I have been turned away on religious grounds before in Virginia. I would get sterilized, but can't, due to covid risk. Surgery is not safe for me. It's a nightmare.

@secretsloth @AngryBlackLady
Leaving it in is a gamble I would not recommend. I had an IUD that was past its replacement date and I got pregnant. We decided we wanted to keep it, not realizing that that was not a viable option. At 5 months I lost the baby. (There were other contributing factors, like a social worker who totally left my paperwork in their inbox for over a month, the whole time I was denied care, but according to social service, I was covered. They just never got around to telling my provider.)

@Darkphoenix thanks. I'll definitely bring it up when I have my next appointment (it expired this year, it isn't waaaaay out of date). Truth be told, I suspect I have endometrosis or a fibroid or two... :lies_down: and I already have pretty severe long covid, so... unless hospitals start mitigating, that's information I just have to sit on. It's gonna be... a difficult appointment, all around. :bunhdsad:

@Darkphoenix also (been struggling around covid brain with how to say this so please excuse me if the words are wrong,) but I'm so sorry you lost a pregnancy you wanted to keep. I hope you are healing and getting whatever support you need. 💜 I really appreciate your telling me, especially since I'm in a state where pregnancy is especially perilous. State, where I live, state, of my body. Thank you, truly. And my heart goes out to you.

@AngryBlackLady Yk they're nuts when they want to outlaw birth control. Whack jobs. Vote Blue today! 💙

@AngryBlackLady Texas we actually have a Bounty $10,000! If an uber driver knowingly drives to get an abortion ..... redneck evil. Vote Blue 💙

@Tracella
I hope everyone is turning in Ted Cruz's daughters, Abbotts kid and every woman associated with Paxton and Patrick.

@AngryBlackLady Immediately delete any period tracking apps as they will rat you out the cops.

@AngryBlackLady I read this thread when you originally posted it. Not 3 days later my 16 yo daughter told me she was looking to download a period tracking app!! 😳 We’re in CA, where theres a false sense of safety. I told her all this stuff & hopefully she’ll just use a calendar. The fight never ends.

@AngryBlackLady Kobach? This is my opposite-of-surprised face. Lifelong controlling asshole with bad opinions, that guy.

@AngryBlackLady

Always worth mentioning that while they want white women to maintain their pregnancies (at any cost), they straight-up want Black folks to die.

Not that that's news.

Pre- and post-natal care for pregnant Black folks has a long and studied history of being insufficient for needs predicated along genetic and epigenetic factors -- as well as being more expensive, less well-operated, and generally ... well, let's just say shit.

I call this 'genocide by the garden path', and even if one were given to call that phrase hyperbolic, it's not too far removed from their plans -- or intentions.

@AngryBlackLady the spectre of involuntary sterilization shuffles about menacingly in the subtext

@AngryBlackLady
> sovereign injury

Now that I know this exists, it's the single power I'm going to request when elevated to godhood.

@AngryBlackLady

This is completely true. Perhaps the only negative example of white privilege.

@wiseguyeddie

@AngryBlackLady
If your child is one of the states with an abortion ban, they are not getting the best education for the price.

@AngryBlackLady the fact that #healthcare requires #OpSec in the #USA is already flabberghasting me...

@AngryBlackLady Any state, IMO, at least as far as data/digital safety is concerned. You can have 100 different burner phones, but if they run one of the two major OS's, there's more being uploaded to the account you signed in with than even the techiest of people can track, while access to that data after that fact is what's regulated, for now.

Planned Parenthood needs banks of Linux PCs and flip phones to lend out.

The easy out is spreading your interactions across other people's accounts.

@AngryBlackLady IIRC @404mediaco contacted all of the period apps, and only one of them said they wouldn't provide client periods information to the police if asked.

@MissConstrue@mefi.social @AngryBlackLady@mstdn.social @404mediaco@mastodon.social the fact that police can subpoena your period cycles due to it being potential evidence is so fucked to me I hate it here

@puppygirlhornypost2 @MissConstrue @404mediaco @AngryBlackLady i'm not sure where to post this but if it's just text and dates, you might consider just using a "notes" app - if you have to have an app. Or a plain old text file on you laptop will do as well... Does this sound helpful?

@CaptainJanegay @AngryBlackLady @404mediaco Unfortunately, I do not, but I believe the writer talked about it in their podcast, either most recent or the one before. The lead story on the podcast was about the Wordpress fiasco, if that helps? The writer may have been writing for a different site when she did the story…sorry it’s vague, I was under a sink trying to be a plumber so I was distracted. 🤣

@MissConstrue @AngryBlackLady @404mediaco I'm actually halfway through the same podcast episode, so maybe I should finish listening to it 😂

@MissConstrue
that is outrageous. "If asked" should at a minimum be with a warrant. And even THAT would violate HIPAA. If they are claiming the info becomes public domain when entered in the APP, DON'T use the APP!
I admittedly do not know what the apps do beyond tracking dates, which could be done with pencil and paper. I'll educate myself on that. There should not be any need for data to be uploaded for an app to be useful, but all do. My rule is don't use apps unless no alternative.

@dbc3 Surprisingly, hipaa doesn’t cover apps in many cases, where the user enters data.
Quote: However, the HIPAA Rules do not protect the privacy and security of information that users voluntarily download or enter into mobile apps that are not developed or offered by or on behalf of regulated entities, regardless of where the information came from

hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professional

I’ve done hipaa compliance, it’s harder than people think, and a lot of apps like BetterHealth and period apps are not hipaa compliant.

HHS.gov · Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and Business AssociatesThe Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is issuing this Bulletin to highlight the obligations of Health Insurance Portab

@MissConstrue
That's what I figured. They treat uploading data like writing it on social networking or on a wall somewhere.
So especially those in the draconian law states should just not document periods snywhere.

Way back 50+ years ago my wife used to just write a small "p" on the calendar. She could flip back to find the last one or find several to check regularity. We had a nervous 2 weeks once when dating. But nobody else knew that.
We're not going back - except for defensive measures.

@MissConstrue @AngryBlackLady @404mediaco Thinking about this problem... Were I a woman with this problem, I'd look into period tracking apps based out of, say, Switzerland or Germany. Search results, including apps, are filtered by country. If you use a VPN and place yourself in Europe, you'll discover a whole new world. If you speak another language, change your defaults and use it.

I've done this for years. All of my digital assets and server are located in Europe. I've never tried it with Android apps, but it seems the same tactic might work.

@MissConstrue @AngryBlackLady @404mediaco I believe it’s relatively safe to use the “Health” app on iPhone. Apple says the data is encrypted end-to-end*, so police could only get it if they had one of your own devices, unlocked. Apple does provide data in response to court orders, but they don’t have this data so they can’t provide it.

* support.apple.com/en-us/102651 scroll down to the “Data categories and encryption” table

Apple SupportiCloud data security overview - Apple SupportiCloud uses strong security methods, employs strict policies to protect your information, and leads the industry in using privacy-preserving security technologies like end-to-end encryption for your data.

@MissConstrue @AngryBlackLady @404mediaco And that one was lying because they know they can't say no to the police.

They're also fucking stupid (or intentionally malicious) to ever have collected the information to begin with rather than leaving it where it belongs: on the user's device.

@AngryBlackLady for people who still want to use a period tracking app, the most secure one I've found is "drip" - everything is stored locally on your phone, can quickly and easily be deleted, and there's no data collection (and the source code is open to verify). I've been using it for years and really cannot overstate how much I like it.

It's free too! bloodyhealth.gitlab.io/
But I love their app so much I've sent some $ their way here: ko-fi.com/post/drip-release-G2

@dripapp

bloodyhealth.gitlab.iodrip. appdrip. menstrual cycle and fertility tracking

@AngryBlackLady I used an app as I moved toward menopause. There was a couple of months where I hadn't gotten my period. I got an email from the app folks asking if I was ok. I explained that I was over 50 and likely starting menopause. At the time, I was touched that they paid attention and wanted to check on my health. NOW--it scares the s#it out of me. Delete those apps!!

@AngryBlackLady How did my mom manage to have periods? She died before the first app was invented.

@AngryBlackLady
Stop buying period products using frequent buyers cards. Those stores sell your data...and would give it away to the monitors.
Pay cash. Credit card data shows purchases.
At least until TFG is defeated.
Purchase patterns can establish whether you need the products when you stop buying.

@AngryBlackLady seriously, don't people read the "#ToS" or are people in the #USA being pavlov'd into accepting nonexistant #privacy ???

@AngryBlackLady I (cis-male) use an oura ring to monitor sleep and heartbeet. However, it also has a temp function, and claims to be able to predict fertility. If I owned a uterus I would probably not own an ouraring, or would disable the temp function.

@AngryBlackLady Using a burner phone isn't good enough on its own. It can track your movement between your home and the abortion clinic. Knowing your home is as bad as knowing you. So put in the SIM card well away from home.

Park away from the clinic and walk the rest or take a taxi. Cars track you too nowadays. My EV is basically an Android phone on four wheels.

@AngryBlackLady This kind of persecution of women seeking abortion-related health care & emergency treatment needs to fucken stop!

The stunts the "GOP" is pulling in favor of "Christian" anti-Christians are already far behind an enlightened society & whole country.

@ArenaCops @AngryBlackLady And it is about controlling women. The more babies thing is just a cover story.

@pawsplay @AngryBlackLady USPS has done that for decades. Only recently have they offered the informed delivery service. I find it useful, since they have always had the photos anyway.

@AngryBlackLady
Yeah. Leave your normal phone at home, and pay for everything in cash in case the state obtains your credit card records. This kind of stuff makes The Handmaid's Tale look like a documentary.

@AngryBlackLady
Will #AKA🥸@JDVance @berniemoreno call for a Nat'l Masturbation Posse 2 nail the spermiciders who waste LIVE sperm, preventing growth of cheap labor & ignorant military grunts❓
The 1%erst don't wish 2 b bothered by mundane insanity❗