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It's not a completely crazy thing. The Texas legislation provides for civil enforcement-- random litigants can sue providers and recover attorney's fees. Stat

by mlyle 4y ago

It's not a completely crazy thing. The Texas legislation provides for civil enforcement-- random litigants can sue providers and recover attorney's fees. Statutes like this tend to encourage all kinds of tomfoolery; asshats could decide on the business plan of A) put up menstrual tracking app that stores data in cloud, B) detect probable abortions in Texas, C) sue providers as John Doe and use discovery to figure out who they are. Or, Texas could use subpoena power to try and obtain this information from such apps for the purpose of enforcement.

tekknik 4y ago
It is completely crazy, everyone is focused on period tracking apps. What about the overwhelming majority of women that don’t use such apps? It seems like people are grasping at straws now, which makes it crazy.
- mlyle 4y ago
  > What about the overwhelming majority of women that don’t use such apps? About 20% of women in the US use one, and this is a number that is increasing. It's already not great that most brokered the data, sold it to advertisers, etc. But, now with restrictive policies towards abortion forming in many states, this information has become legally dangerous to many of these women.
  - tekknik 4y ago
    20% is an extreme minority.
    - mlyle 4y ago
      But a big share nonetheless, and ones who are rightfully worried.
      - tekknik 4y ago
        Are we changing math now? 20% is not a large share. They can avoid all issues by using a calendar or that grey matter between their ears.
        mlyle 4y ago
        > Are we changing math now? 20% is not a large share. No one said "a majority". A large share has a pretty clearly understood definition.
        tekknik 4y ago
        That’s not even a large share.
        mlyle 4y ago
        You're back 2 weeks later to troll more?