[zarriak]

I don’t think this is as big of a deal as people are presenting because I think there are already a lot of people who know you are pregnant from your data than period tracking.

This makes me think of the story of Target[1] knowing when people were pregnant. I think there are a lot of other companies that it will come out are figuring out who is pregnant that will demonstrate the depth of surveillance of the surveillance economy.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...

[mmastrac]

The argument that it's not a big deal because you can also get arrested through all other sorts of invasive tracking isn't really that strong.

[zarriak]

There are just so many reasons for the period trackers to fight any potential data requests they receive and lots of other sources of data that can provide you close enough to the same data.

I do think it is very important to specify because this is being presented as a false choice where the most important thing to do is to stop inputting data to your data into a period tracker app instead of the vast collection of all of your other data eg search and purchases. It is a false dichotomy where one of the few times people are consensually creating data is focused on instead of the vast amount of other data that most people would consider egregious to collect/collate.

[braldigg]

> he was able to identify about 25 products that, when analyzed together, allowed him to assign each shopper a “pregnancy prediction” score

Is not the same as a data broker selling data a user has self-reported about their ovulation.