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The abortion it has ceased to be a constitutional right in the United States and it is estimated that around half of the states that make up the country will prohibit it in the short term. Currently many women, according to information from the US media, are taking measures to prevent the information stored on their smartphones from causing problems in the future.
“At this moment, and I mean this moment, it erases all digital traces of any menstrual record,” said Gina Neff, professor of technology and society at Oxford University, for example, in a message on
Twitter. Precisely, one of the tools that security experts have drawn the most attention to is the menstrual apps.
Those services that some women use to predict the drop in their period, something that can come in handy, in addition, to prevent pregnancies or, on the contrary, try to get pregnant.
Some media, such as ‘BBC’, point to the possibility that the data collected in applications can cause problems for women who decide to abort, against the law in some states, if a judicial process for abortion is opened and they end up in the hands of the authorities. As reported by ‘The Guardian’, many American users have been deleting these applications for fear that could be used against them in future criminal cases.
‘Apps’ of this type, such as Natural Cycleshave announced that they are taking measures to make it impossible for third parties, including the application itself, to have access to the information provided by its users.
Other similar tools, like Clue, have tried to reassure through Twitter stating that all the information of Internet users is stored on servers located in the city of Berlin, therefore, in principle, they could be out of the access of the US authorities thanks to the General Protection Regulation of data. At least, as long as Europe did not bow to the presumed demands of North American states.
Unlike what happens in the EU, the US authorities could have access to this information with a court order; especially now, when abortion is on its way to becoming illegal in much of the country. This can be verified in the federal American Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, known as HIPAA.
Some states in the North American country, such as Connecticut, where abortion will continue to be legal, are trying to find a solution that prevents the data of those women who come to their territory to undergo the procedure from ending up in the hands of the authorities, according to US media reports. as ‘The Verge’.
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