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Many apps and social media platforms collect detailed information about you as you use them, and sometimes even when you’re not using them. Malte Mueller/fStop via Getty images

The hidden cost of convenience: How your data pulls in hundreds of billions of dollars for app and social media companies

Kassem Fawaz, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Jack West, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Many of the apps and social media platforms you use every day may not charge you money, but often there is a price to pay – your privacy.
Social media is flush with advice urging non-menstruating people to use period tracking apps in order to trip up the apps’ algorithms. Westend61 via Getty Images

No, submitting junk data to period tracking apps won’t protect reproductive privacy

Katie Siek, Indiana University; Alexander L. Hayes, Indiana University, and Zaidat Ibrahim, Indiana University

It would take huge numbers of people submitting bad data to affect the algorithms behind period tracking apps, but even then it would be more harmful than helpful.
Voters should be aware of how their personal data is being collected and used by political parties. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld)

Electronic tracking of voters is a thorny topic in a tight federal election race

Sara Bannerman, McMaster University; Elizabeth Dubois, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Jenny Zhan, McMaster University; Julia Kalinina, McMaster University, and Nicole Goodman, Brock University

During an election, political parties gather personal data about Canadian voters. This data collection isn’t regulated, and citizens should be concerned.

Related Topics

  1. Abortion
  2. Apps
  3. Data privacy
  4. Menstruation
  5. Mobile apps
  6. Privacy
  7. Reproductive choices
  8. Reproductive rights
  9. Roe v Wade
  10. Technology

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