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Americans are being urged to delete period tracking apps. Should Canadians do the same?

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If you’re the kind of person who tracks your period, fitness, sleep or other health metrics with an app, privacy experts have a warning for you: your data could be a gold mine for advertisers, hackers, or law enforcement.

There have been calls on social media for American women to delete period tracking apps from their phones since the U.S. Supreme Court’s draft decision on Roe v. Wade was leaked in early May.

With abortion now banned in at least eight states, there are fears that app users’ menstrual cycle data, along with other information, could be used to prosecute them for having an

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This story was originally published on  CBC News. To read the rest of this news worthy story, please visit https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/period-tracker-apps-data-privacy-1.6510029?cmp=rss.

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