Comment on Menstrual tracking app data is a ‘gold mine’ for advertisers that risks women’s safety – report

• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well on iOS there’s the Apple health app. To my knowledge it stores health data locally. I’ll double check now

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  • autonomoususer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wrong, Apple Health fails to include a libre software license text file. We do not control it, anti-libre software. Do you believe every lie Apple tells us?

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    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah I know it’s not FOSS in the slightest, but it’s not a predatory app selling your health data to the highest bidder, presumably. I acknowledge that requires taking Apple’s word at face value though

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    • russjr08@bitforged.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean, sure - but if you really don’t trust Apple to keep their word, then it wouldn’t matter if their Health app was FOSS or not. iOS itself is still (and probably forever will be) a closed source operating system. That gives them the power to do anything, including hijack the data from FOSS apps.

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      • autonomoususer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Replacing the system is easy when we start with the apps and keep them across systems.

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  • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m aware, but the person I responded to specifically mentioned F-Droid, which is Android-only.

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