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Explore the hidden data privacy risks lurking beneath the user-friendly interfaces of femtech applications in this 59-minute conference talk from NDC Manchester 2025. Examine how millions of women's reproductive health tracking apps collect, store, and potentially misuse deeply personal health information while operating outside medical device regulations and exploiting data governance loopholes. Discover the technical vulnerabilities and regulatory blind spots that make femtech applications uniquely exposed from a cybersecurity perspective, and learn about the socio-technical threat model that accounts for the sensitivity of reproductive health data. Challenge assumptions about these seemingly harmless lifestyle products and engage with critical conversations about design and policy changes needed to return control of intimate data to users.
