Period tracking app options? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Harvest6671@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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With the stories about data from period tracking apps being shared with law enforcement, I was wondering if there was a self hosted alternative I could host for my daughter. My searches so far have not returned any good results. Thanks!

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[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I wrote a period app for my partner, everything is encrypted and never leaves the device.

It has a option where you can set false passwords, so that if you are being compelled to unlock it, it will get up fake data.

Code is open source: https://github.com/cameroncros/PrivatePeriodTracker

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cross.privateperiodtracker

It may not meet your needs, but perhaps worth a look. I am open to adding features (except for ads and tracking obviously).

(I have posted this before, but with an inappropriate account)

[-] Countess425@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is the lord's work made real right here. Thanking you so much from Texas.

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Texas is exactly why I wrote it. I wish my app was a waste of time and no one ever needs it :(

[-] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Menstrual cycle trackers

Drip - Menstrual cycle and fertility tracking. Everything you enter stays on your device.
log28 - a (very) simple no-frills period tracker for Android.

[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 0 points 1 year ago

Sorry, I'm just a dude with no periods that buries my head in the sand a bit to much. The government is doing fucking WHAT with your period information? How is this any of their business? Why would they want to know this information?

[-] starcat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Folks are misleading you. There's CONCERN this could happen, it's not happening.

[-] pyromaster55@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Using it to determine if you get pregnant and then suddenly aren't. So they can charge you for getting an abortion.

[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 0 points 1 year ago

That is fucking insane, considering there are a million reasons why someone might not have a period (stress, could just be an irregular person, or literally no reason at all. Humans are not all the same). Or they could simply forget to input data into their calendar one time. Or they could simply decide that they don't want to use the app any more, then change their mind a few months later. This data would be circumstantial evidence at best, and if anyone is being convicted of a crime based on this data, I am extremely suspicious of the court system in that country/state.

And that's BEFORE we even talk about how it's a huge invasion of privacy.

And which governments are doing this?

[-] Harvest6671@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

The third world government of Texas for one. Whether they target my kid or not, better safe than sorry.

[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 0 points 1 year ago

Ah, based on the original wording, I thought this was something that was already happening. As you said, absolutely better to be safe than sorry. Do everything you can to avoid being put in a situation where you need to figure out if this will hold up in court. I want to believe it wont, but who tf knows with how this world is these days.

[-] rhythmicotter@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A US state has already subpoenaed Facebook for Messenger texts to prove an abortion case. It's not speculative.

[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 1 points 1 year ago

I read about that case, but if I am understanding that correctly, in those messages someone admitted to having an abortion. Having evidence of something happening and not having evidence of something not happening (e.g. a gap in period tracking data) are pretty different in the courtroom. I was specifically asking about subpoenaing period tracking data, citing a gap in the data as evidence of anything. If that held up in court, I would lose any remaining faith that I had in whatever government this happened under, because from a purely logical point of view, lack of data is not evidence of anything.

[-] i_cant_sports@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

There is considerable concern this will happen in the US post-Roe.

[-] cooopsspace@infosec.pub 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd probably just spin up a calendar such as one on Nextcloud but also change the name of the event to another plausible name such as:

Pay day.
Grandma coming to town.
Grandma leaving town.
Walk the cat.
Pick up groceries.
Collect mail.
Drop off mail.

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