#ovia

Anybody want a free printable period tracker CANVA template? It's a work in progress, I just edited a habit tracker format.

The following was originally shared by @erin-hart

If you use the tracking apps like Flo, Clue, etc. its time to stop and delete your data. They have illegally sold data in the past. One of their chief investors is Peter Thiel who has donated millions to Trump and other GOP canditates. Peter Thiel, who referred to rape as "belated regret." Your data is not safe and could be used against you.

It turns out that Activision Blizzard is in the business of being as intrusive as possible in its employee’s lives for the purpose of keeping health costs down and increasing productivity.

The company — and we are not making this up — bribes its female employees with gift cards to install and use Ovia, an app that tracks their reproductive activity. And yes, this includes when they have sex, details about their pregnancy, moods, and even “the appearance of their cervical fluid.” The company then pays Ovia for “anonymized, aggregated” data covering users under its roof. This is only part of an ongoing trend of ways that Activision Blizzard is attempting to track the health of its employees.

But Activision Blizzard VP of Global Benefits Milt Ezzard says that everyone’s cool with it: “Each time we introduced something, there was a bit of an outcry: ‘You’re prying into our lives.’ But we slowly increased the sensitivity of stuff, and eventually people understood it’s all voluntary, there’s no gun to your head, and we’re going to reward you if you choose to do it.”

Truly, Ezzard is a font of genuine concern… for the bottom line: “I want them to have a healthy baby because it’s great for our business experience. Rather than having a baby who’s in the neonatal ICU, where she’s not able to focus much on work.”

Of course, employees who engage in this program have another issue to consider, which is the possibility that their information might get hacked from Ovia or sold without permission — something that occurred with similar apps Flo and Glow over the past year.

Creepy app of the week!

Tracking your pregnancy on an app may be more public than you think 

Like millions of women, Diana Diller was a devoted user of the pregnancy-tracking app Ovia, logging in every night to record new details on a screen asking about her bodily functions, sex drive, medications and mood. When she gave birth last spring, she used the app to chart her baby’s first online medical data — including her name, her location, and whether there had been any complications — before leaving the hospital’s recovery room.