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Your Period Tracker Is (Probably) Spying on You

Wired AI Andy Greenberg, Dell Cameron, Lily Hay Newman July 18, 2026
Your Period Tracker Is (Probably) Spying on You
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# Your Period Tracker Is (Probably) Spying on You Popular period tracking apps are collecting and sharing your intimate health data with advertisers and other companies, often without clear consent—meaning your personal reproductive information could be used to target ads or sold to third parties. The roundup also highlights ongoing cybersecurity problems, including Russian hackers targeting critical infrastructure, U.S. government agencies failing to detect breaches, and an AI music tool getting caught using people's songs without permission.

Plus: Russian cyberspies turn to infrastructure hacking, DHS repeatedly fails to realize it’d been hacked, a breach exposes an AI music generator’s scraping ways, and more.

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