#i don't use tracker apps (i live freely and dangerously) and am not very threatened by changes to the legal status of abortion

[fazmid]

what is the reasoning behind the multiple posts I've seen the past few days telling cis men (and any other people w/o periods) to download period tracker apps to fuck with their data? I feel like I'm missing something here. like the danger of period tracking apps (afaik) is the app recording if your period was late in a way that could indicate a pregnancy. if you live somewhere where abortion is illegal and your period tracker app's data can be accessed by law enforcement, they could use that data as evidence that you terminated your pregnancy illegally. other people poisoning the wider pool of data would have no affect on your data on an individual level or what law enforcement might try to infer based on changes to your specific cycle. I'm not sure I understand what the goal is here.