SPECIAL EDITION: RED CARD PLEDGE
HELLO! FROM THE OFFICE OF PRIVACY
Welcome to the Office of Privacy Newsletter. In preparation of Webster University's Red Card launch on Monday, October 11, we dedicate this special edition to women and privacy.

We hope that you will take the pledge and raise a Red Card to all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls.

Please checkout our website at: https://www.webster.edu/privacy-security

Comments? Email us at gdpr@webster.edu
WITH 'CYBER COLLECTIVE', BIPOC WOMEN EDUCATE ON DIGITAL DATA PRIVACY AND ETHICS
As a security specialist in the cybersecurity industry, Tazin Khan Norelius noticed several troubling trends. She saw inequality and a lack of representation for minorities and women. This raised red flags for her because this was an industry tasked with protecting all consumers online. 
PRIVACY IS A PRIVILEGE: HOW SURVEILLANCE CULTURE IMPACTS WOMEN
While any personal data we share makes us more vulnerable online, the risks are different depending on our socioeconomic status and identity. For the rich and famous, at risk is money or reputation; for more vulnerable groups, like women the risk could be privacy, freedom, or physical safety.  
PERIOD APPS ARE A PRIVACY NIGHTMARE - SHOULD YOU STILL USE THEM? AN EXPERT EXPLAINS THE RISKS
Period-tracking apps allow users to track and anticipate symptoms, as well as providing an aid for people hoping to conceive. They are also hugely popular, Flo has more than 50 million downloads on the Google Play store, Clue has more than 10 million. It's a competitive market, and even Apple launched its own period-tracking app in 2019. Unfortunately, menstruation apps also have a track record of throwing up big privacy red flags. 
PERIOD TRACKING APP SETTLES CHARGES IT LIED TO USERS ABOUT PRIVACY
In the complaint, the FTC alleges Flo told users their information would be kept private. Then it shared their sensitive health data, including the dates of their periods and their pregnancy plans, with outside companies, including Facebook and Google that provided marketing and analytics services to the app. It also failed to limit how this data would be used.
HANDLE WITH CARE: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SAFETY PLANNING IN THE AGE OF DATA PRIVACY LAWS
A new form of intimate partner abuse that is growing is technology-facilitated or technology-based abuse, where abusers utilize technology to control their partners. One area of concern with technology-based abuse is data privacy. Legal scholars and policy experts debate over the best method to protect privacy, while others theorize that privacy protection is futile, and the focus should be on controlling the dissemination of data instead.
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