Amazon has cancelled its secret "fertility tracker device" project. In other news, Amazon had a secret "fertility tracker device" project.
The program was ended in late October but apparently someone is just now talking to CNBC about it.
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Amazon shuts down secret project to develop fertility tracker
The project, codenamed "Encore," was part of Amazon's moonshot incubator Grand Challenge, which launched under founder Jeff Bezos.Annie Palmer (CNBC)
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in reply to Covidiocracy • • •Evelyn, who Just. Can't. Even.
in reply to Covidiocracy • • •From the article, it looks like this was a secret project to create a fertility tracker device, rather than a project to develop a secret fertility tracker device.
So, while it's still fraught with potential privacy invasions, it's not quite the dystopian nightmare of the first conclusion I jumped to.
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in reply to Evelyn, who Just. Can't. Even. • • •Evelyn, who Just. Can't. Even.
in reply to Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷 • • •@Tooden I don't think anyone confessed. It seems like they were outed by ex-employees of the cancelled project.
The thing that lept into my mind was a device that could track a womans' fertility without *the woman's* knowledge. (A result of all this current background misogyny, I guess.)
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in reply to Evelyn, who Just. Can't. Even. • • •@Gorfram @Tooden
Guess in the context of abortion bans appearing in various places, anything encouraging people to track their fertility online can be potentially dangerous?
@privacyint has often been concerned about what exactly these kinds of apps track and how widely they share it.
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