o in light of RvW being repealed, a lot of people have been worried about their period trackers being used against them. I’m not personally in the US so I’m not in danger on that front, but I do want to stand in support with those who are. But on the other hand, my tracker keeps track of my dates, meaning I’m not surprised when It’s Time anymore. It’s just very nice to know when I need to have my stuff on hand, yknow? And I’m not NT enough to do that on my own. So I asked them.
[Jun 28, 2022, 12:06 GMT+2]
Hello Clue,
The SCOTUS recently repealed Roe v Wade, as I’m sure you know. Some US states have already started making abortions illegal. There is -well founded- concern over women being prosecuted over having “secretly had an abortion”, and data from period tracking apps being used to support these accusations. What is Clue doing to prevent users’ data from being used against them?
Sincerely,
(and then my name but I cropped that out for obvious reasons)
Their response:
[Jun 28, 2022, 15:08 GMT+2]
Hello there, Thanks for reaching out. With the recent discussion about abortion laws in the United States of America, we completely understand any anxiety you may be feeling. We’re here to help you in any way we can. We’d like to reassure all people who use Clue that any health data they track in Clue is private and safe. This includes any data about pregnancies, pregnancy loss or abortion. Keeping your sensitive data safe is fundamental to our values and what we believe in. It’s also fundamental to our business model, because earning our community’s trust is paramount to what we do. As a company based in Berlin, Germany, we follow European Union law and are required to protect the sensitive health data of all people who use Clue. This falls under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a data protection and privacy law which is one of the strictest privacy regulations in the world. By following this law, we apply special protection to any reproductive health data tracked in Clue. We have never and will never disclose this information. Your health data will always be safe with us, regardless of where you live. All health data is stored on servers in the European Union. Lastly, we invite you to check these articles on our website: Patient Data Privacy at Clue: A statement from the Co-CEOs Clue’s Response to Roe vs Wade We understand this is a distressing time for some people. If you have any more questions, feel free to get in touch. All the best, Thiago - Support Agent
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I think the Clue’s Response to Roe vs Wade is particularly relevant here (I’d tried to find it on their website, don’t know why I couldn’t before now). I am by literally every means not a lawyer, so I can’t tell if any of this is legal enough for people to feel safe using Clue. But. idk, maybe if you benefit from using a tracker, consider using this one.
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Noooo don't get a tattoo it's so permanent blah blah blah my tattoo is whatever I want it to be and today it's an octopus
@wonderingsam so vampires are mostly just assholes. They could've been drinking milk like people THIS ENTIRE TIME instead of going feral
…THEY’RE CALLED T-SHIRTS BECAUSE THEY RESEMBLE THE LETTER T
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@wonderingsam @chronosfear
In the town where I grew up, there was a large statue in one of the parks, of a famous historical white colonizer. I'm not going to say who specifically, suffice it to say that it was someone who wasn't worth memorializing for their deeds. And as you can imagine, this statue was a frequent target of vandalism, with paint or toilet paper or eggs on multiple occasions. Now, the local council was generally pretty lax when it came to repairing potholes or other public damage in the town, but every time, 24 hours after this particular statue was hit, the same person would always appear in a Hi-Vis vest, hat, mask and sunglasses, carrying a bucket of water, and wash it clean. They would do it as quickly as possible, but always made sure the face and the name carved at the bottom were generously scrubbed. This only encouraged people to do it again, and so it became a vicious cycle.
Within a year, the statue had sustained so much damage that it was unrecognizable and the lettering unreadable, so eventually the council came and took it down. Also apparently, the person in the Hi-Vis vest didn't even work for the council. They were supposedly just some 'good samaritan' who cleaned it, often before the council even discovered it needed cleaning, so they just let them do it and ignored the problem. They didn't bother putting the statue up again.
Much later, we found out that the anonymous 'samaritan' had been deliberately washing the statue with a bucket of saltwater, which had dramatically corroded it, causing irreversible accumulative damage far worse than spray paint ever would have done. It's even theorized that they were also often the one spray-painting it, just so that they had an excuse to come back after a day to wash it.
I believe in you!!
https://m.fanfiction.net/u/119117/Cithara
This is one of my favorite active authors on Fanfiction.net. This person has 25 stories posted over there, is currently updating a new one titled Call Me Friend But Keep Me Closer(HP/George W.), and just finished one called Memory’s Pale Reflection, which is one of my absolute favorite HP/SS. This author has done an outstanding job of getting me tuned in (and turned on) to DM/Remus L. with the story Just Sex. There’s also a story called One’s Man Treaaon, which features DM/Bill W. that is very well done. You’ll find that this author has done some of the best HP/Ron W. Brave New World (HP/SS; DM/RW) may have been this author’s most popular work, but I’d like to do a special mention to An Honourable Man (HP/SS; DM/RW).
there are people out there who, on a nightly basis, fall asleep in less than 20 minutes. that feels wrong to me
Cannot Stress Enough how important it is to read Howl’s Moving Castle written by Diana Wynn Jones immediately after watching Howl’s Moving Castle directed by Hayao Miyazaki. When he made the movie he was of course upset with war and thus included it in the film, but you gotta understand. You really Gotta Understand. Every time in the movie where Howl turns the door dial black to travel to an absolutely hellish warscape? You know where that same dial takes him in the book? The Real World Country Of Wales
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