You're listening to Comedy Central. Wow. The hottest apps are all about fem tech, which is a combination of female and um tech. And this technology for females is a rapidly growing industry that, like sand after a day at the beach, has found its way into every part of women's bodies, tracking all of our needs from pregnancy, nursing periods, even tracking Keegel exercises. You thought your peloton instructor was tough, you have not met my gegle coach. But how necessary
are these apps and will they replace our doctors? My name is Line brave Boy. I am an obstetrician, gynecologist and a reproductive andechnologist with a specialty and infertility, and I'm also an egg biologist and I also do clinical research on them tech. I am Dassielidic, and I too am a woman, but much less accomplished. So your doctor, clearly, why are women going to these apps? Why not just
go to someone like you? Well, there are a lot of great apps that are high quality, and what people don't realize is that a lot of physicians will take what's called history, what's been happening with you? What changes have you had? And a lot of people can't answer it because they haven't really thought about what's happening in their cycles or with their periods. So if you're keeping track of your own history, then you can get the treatment that you need for the concerns that you have.
She's right. Without the reminder of an app, women are often too busy making up for the female recession to track their cycles. I mean, what am I going to do? Write it in a diary, hide it under a pillow, and my husband finds it and reads it, publishes it that I'm a multi millionaire author of a period journal.
I can't do that the tour dates alone. Yeah, so period tracking is really a wonderful tool because what it does is it allows an individual to track what's happening in their own health and when they actually do meet with their physicians, they're able to advocate for themselves. And it's empowering as people may feel that they're the only ones suffering from health conditions and that's not the case. Yeah,
women do feel isolated and need to share more. This does need to be normalized, and so when you're tracking your own menstrual cycle, you can say, hey, I don't think this is right, But you should be careful about apps that are free and don't tell you what they do with their data. What do you mean, Well, there have been some apps that, unfortunately, have violated the trust of their users by selling data. Oh man, can you imagine if someone put in that they have like two
of vaginas? That'd be embarrassing. You should be very wary of apps that don't disclose what they do with your data. And that's unfortunate. Are you kidding me? More than nineteen million women in the US have downloaded the flow app, which tracks menstrual cycles and pregnancies, all of it personal information, but millions of women are now discus. Wink was also shared with other companies selling our ovulation data. These apps are snitching on our snatches. Who would do something like this?
I decided to confront the woman person who gave them tech its lady name and created one of these suspicious chick apps. My name is I am the co founder of an appicle Clue, and we help people with cycles and women understand their minstrel health and their bodies. ETA. I have to be honest with you. I feel really violated. I mean I shared some of my deepest darkest secrets with these apps, my dense breasts, my unfriendly cervical environment.
All the times I fantasize about the property brothers, how do I know that I'm ever going to be able to trust again? We have never sold your data and we will never sell your data. Look, Ata, I want to trust you, but this is not just a normal pact. We're talking periods here. This is a blood pact. I know. Let me take it really seriously. Okay, Well, how concerned should we be about this data leak? Is it like a day one league or a full blown day three?
Tie a sweatshirt around your waist and pray for the best kind of week. We should be pretty worried because these are companies that deliberately have chosen to share more data than they had told their users that they would share. And that's not right. So how can we safely use these apps moving forward? Well it's hard, Honestly. In Europe we have really tough regulation and we've been checked, whereas
in the US you are not being checked. So one good navigation is to see how does this company make money? And if you can't see how they make money, that's a red flag. So if it's free. That's a red flag. If you don't pay for the product you're using, you most likely are the product yourself. So clearly, fan tech is a lot like our bodies. We have to stay vigilant to make sure everything is functioning properly. So until they invent sent tech tech to monitor these apps, I
guess we'll just have to track them ourselves. Watch The Daily Show weeknights at eleven tenth Central on Comedy Central and stream full episodes any time on Paramount Plus. This has been a Comedy Central podcast