Article 1NXK3 Pregnancy-tracking app was riddled with vulnerabilities, exposing extremely sensitive personal information

Pregnancy-tracking app was riddled with vulnerabilities, exposing extremely sensitive personal information

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Cory Doctorow
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Consumer Reports Labs tested Glow, a very popular menstrual cycle/fertility-tracking app, and found that the app's designers had made a number of fundamental errors in the security and privacy design of the app, which would make it easy for stalkers or griefers to take over the app, change users' passwords, spy on them, steal their identities, and access extremely intimate data about the millions of women and their partners who use the app. (more")

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