Your Period Tracker Is Not Your Friend

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3.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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After the Supreme Court opinion dismantling Roe v. Wade was leaked earlier this week, social media has been flooded with people telling you to delete your period tracker apps. On today’s show, Rachelle and Madison talk about their own experiences using period tracking apps, the ways your personal data can be purchased and used against you, and why data privacy in this country is nothing but a joke. Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here's the truth about AI. AI is only as powerful as the platform it's built into. Service Now puts AI to work for people across your business, removing friction and frustration for your employees, supercharging productivity for your developers, providing intelligent tools for your service agents to make customers happier, all built into a single platform you can
0:22.0	use right now. That's why the world works with ServiceNow. Visit ServiceNow.com slash UK
0:28.5	slash AI for people. Some apps used by millions of people are sharing data like a person's menstrual
0:36.7	cycle contraception use and even sex life with Facebook and other third parties.
0:43.0	Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher.
0:45.2	And I'm Rachel Hampton and you're listening to I see why I'm I.
0:48.3	In case you missed it.
0:50.3	Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:52.6	What a freaking week, Rachel.
0:55.6	Honestly, I think it deserves a fucking at this point.
0:58.5	What a fucking week.
1:01.0	Fair.
1:01.7	Yeah, absolutely fair.
1:02.7	It's just, can you believe it's only been a week?
1:04.8	Can you believe it's been a week?
1:06.4	Honestly, at this point, I feel like we've been living in this terrible,
1:10.6	liminal space for at least three years at this point.
1:14.4	To borrow from the great poetess, Olivia Roderigo, uh, it's brutal out here.
1:26.0	Before we get into what we obviously have to get into, given the state of the world this week,
1:30.2	uh, levity, I beg.
1:32.1	Rachel, show me something good you saw on the internet this week.
1:35.8	Um, I'm going to show you something that I think kind of perfectly encapsulates my experience growing up as an adolescent in Texas.
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