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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.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/13/amazon-shuts-down-secret-project-to-develop-fertility-tracker.html
#Amazon #FertilityTracker

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)
#Amazon #fertilitytracker
Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷
As in: #Perverts_R_Us? Janitor's spyholes in the Ladies' bathroom? Upskirting?
Bezos is a sicko. Weird enough to be a Republican.
#perverts_r_us
Evelynuary
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.
Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷
Isn't it the intent, not the application? Why confess now? @ampersine
@Covidiocracy
Evelynuary
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.)
Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷
Probably that. #I_choose_the_Bear @ampersine
#i_choose_the_bear @Covidiocracy
Evelynuary
Yes. Less misogynists, more bears.

*maybe even let the misogynists and the bears play together, hmm?
The Doctor
Makes you wonder what they're doing with all that One Medical data, doesn't it?
FediThing 🏳️‍🌈
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.
@Privacy International
Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷
6 months ago, there were warnings that women should yank any period tracker they were using on their phone or tablet. Buy a notebook. Use a pen or pencil. Do not put it online. No state will be safe from the #ForcedBirthers now. @Gorfram @ampersine @privacyint
#ForcedBirthers @Covidiocracy @Evelynuary @Privacy International
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Artemis
I would think the product might have ended up being a very hard sell for them in light of the fact that Trump just got elected and Republicans have a stranglehold on the government... meanwhile Jeff Bezos pulled his Washington Post shenanigans and whether he wanted to do so publicly or not effectively sided with Trump.

Seems like "you should trust us with your fertility data" might be hard to convince people of.
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