I know links don’t work here, but I figured some of you might be interested in this. I don’t know much can’t answer most questions but I will post some excerpts from the article. Basically they have the ability to track your location, apps you have installed, and other things you wouldn’t except a fertility app to track, and selling them to companies in China. Fertility friend has a line reader that’s similar that you can use if you’d like to delete premom.

Here’s the link if you want to google it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/20/popular-fertility-app-shared-data-without-user-consent-researchers-say/

“Premom’s app for Android was also collecting a broad swath of data about its users and sharing it without their permission with three Chinese companies focused on advertising, according to research the International Digital Accountability Council provided to The Washington Post. IDAC, a nonprofit that monitors and works with apps and developers to protect consumer privacy, sent letters on Aug. 6 to the Federal Trade Commission and the attorney general of Illinois, where Premom is headquartered, alleging the data-sharing was deceptive and potentially ran afoul of federal and state law.

While many apps use third parties to collect analytics or target ads, IDAC researchers say Premom users had no way of opting out of this tracking by both the app and the third parties that received their data, which IDAC contends was a violation of Google’s rules.

“There’s pretty extensive and sensitive data collection going on here with respect to a large number of users who don’t have any reason to know about this data collection,” said Quentin Palfrey, president of IDAC, which launched in April after incubating for more than a year with the Future of Privacy Forum.

“It’s particularly concerning when we see this behavior with respect to an app that’s targeted at women trying to become pregnant,” Palfrey said, though there’s no evidence the app is transmitting health data to third parties. Premom has the ability to track users’ location, log which other apps they have installed, and collect unique identifiers from people’s devices that could allow other companies to trace their activity across other websites, the researchers found.”