[HTML][HTML] Privacy, data sharing, and data security policies of women's mHealth apps: sco** review and content analysis

N Alfawzan, M Christen, G Spitale… - JMIR mHealth and …, 2022 - formative.jmir.org
Background: Women's mobile health (mHealth) is a growing phenomenon in the mobile app
global market. An increasing number of women worldwide use apps geared to female …

The messiness of the menstruator: assessing personas and functionalities of menstrual tracking apps

A Pichon, KB Jackman, IT Winkler… - Journal of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Objective The aim of this study was to examine trends in the intended users and
functionalities advertised by menstrual tracking apps to identify gaps in personas and …

" I Deleted It After the Overturn of Roe v. Wade": Understanding Women's Privacy Concerns Toward Period-Tracking Apps in the Post Roe v. Wade Era

J Cao, H Laabadli, CH Mathis, RD Stern… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The overturn of Roe v. Wade has taken away the constitutional right to abortion. Prior work
shows that period-tracking apps' data practices can be used to detect pregnancy and …

Vision: too little too late? do the risks of femtech already outweigh the benefits?

M Mehrnezhad, L Shipp, T Almeida… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Female-oriented technologies (FemTech) promise to enable women to take control of their
bodies and lives, hel** them overcome the many existing challenges in medical care and …

Rethinking menstrual trackers towards period-positive ecologies

A Tuli, S Singh, R Narula, N Kumar… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Menstrual tracking is a mechanism widely engaged towards preserving menstrual dignity, as
natural birth control, for ensuring adequate preparation for an upcoming cycle, among other …

Exploring privacy practices of female mhealth apps in a post-roe world

LM Malki, I Kaleva, D Patel, M Warner… - Proceedings of the 2024 …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Mobile apps which support women's health have developed rapidly alongside the
increasing de-stigmatisation of female reproductive wellbeing. However, the ubiquity of …

Bodies like yours: enquiring data privacy in femtech

T Almeida, L Shipp, M Mehrnezhad… - Adjunct Proceedings of …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The digitalisation of the reproductive body has seen a myriad of cutting-edge technologies to
prioritise neglected intimate health and care topics, such as fertility and contraception. The …

“I Did Watch 'The Handmaid's Tale'”: Threat Modeling Privacy Post-roe in the United States

N Mcdonald, N Andalibi - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Now that the protections of Roe v. Wade are no longer available throughout the United
States, the free flow of personal data can be used by legal authorities to provide evidence of …

Walking Through Normativities of Reproductive Bodies: A Method for Critical Analysis of Tracking Applications

L Reime, V Tsaknaki, ML Cohn - … of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Menstruation and fertility tracking applications are of increasing concern in HCI research, as
their use becomes more widespread. Methods are needed to understand how such …

Tactful Feminist Sensing: Designing for Touching Vaginal Fluids

N Campo Woytuk, JY Park, J Maslik… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Observing the texture, color, and conductivity of cervical mucus has the potential to support
menstrual cycle and fertility tracking, generating a layer of rich bodily, tactile/haptic …