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Your period tracking app could tell Facebook when you're pregnant. An 'algorithmic guardian' could stop it.

  • Written by Flora D. Salim, Associate Professor in Computer Science, RMIT University
Your period tracking app could tell Facebook when you're pregnant. An 'algorithmic guardian' could stop it.The way it is now, we have almost no way to know how our data are being shared and used.Shutterstock

Most of us know tech platforms such as Facebook and Google track, store and make money from our data. But there are constantly new revelations about just how much of our privacy has been chipped away.

The latest comes from the Wall Street Journal,...

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