Comment by JohnBooty
6 days ago
I find the "shouldn't we investigate dumping possible human remains into a dumpster?" question to be a red herring at best but: yes, sure, we should. I do not find it relevant to menstruation data captured by an application. If we have the remains, we know the age of the fetus or baby, and can prove whether a particular suspect is the mother of that fetus or baby.
Obviously nobody's being investigated for routine miscarriages.
It is absolutely not at all obvious to me that this will continue to be the case, especially if the data to do so exists -- which is the central point of this discussion about why women would rightfully view the sharing of their menstrual data as a potential safety risk.
In fact the opposite is much more "obvious" to me: I think a lot of people in America (and elsewhere) would absolutely support such a thing.
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