Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Wow. The hottest apps are
Speaker 1: all about fem tech, which is a combination of female
Speaker 1: and um tech. And this technology for females is a
Speaker 1: rapidly growing industry that, like sand after a day at
Speaker 1: the beach, has found its way into every part of
Speaker 1: women's bodies, tracking all of our needs from pregnancy, nursing periods,
Speaker 1: even tracking Keegel exercises. You thought your peloton instructor was tough,
Speaker 1: you have not met my gegle coach. But how necessary
Speaker 1: are these apps and will they replace our doctors? My
Speaker 1: name is Line brave Boy. I am an obstetrician, gynecologist
Speaker 1: and a reproductive andechnologist with a specialty and infertility, and
Speaker 1: I'm also an egg biologist and I also do clinical
Speaker 1: research on them tech. I am Dassielidic, and I too
Speaker 1: am a woman, but much less accomplished. So your doctor, clearly,
Speaker 1: why are women going to these apps? Why not just
Speaker 1: go to someone like you? Well, there are a lot
Speaker 1: of great apps that are high quality, and what people
Speaker 1: don't realize is that a lot of physicians will take
Speaker 1: what's called history, what's been happening with you? What changes
Speaker 1: have you had? And a lot of people can't answer
Speaker 1: it because they haven't really thought about what's happening in
Speaker 1: their cycles or with their periods. So if you're keeping
Speaker 1: track of your own history, then you can get the
Speaker 1: treatment that you need for the concerns that you have.
Speaker 1: She's right. Without the reminder of an app, women are
Speaker 1: often too busy making up for the female recession to
Speaker 1: track their cycles. I mean, what am I going to do?
Speaker 1: Write it in a diary, hide it under a pillow,
Speaker 1: and my husband finds it and reads it, publishes it
Speaker 1: that I'm a multi millionaire author of a period journal.
Speaker 1: I can't do that the tour dates alone. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: period tracking is really a wonderful tool because what it
Speaker 1: does is it allows an individual to track what's happening
Speaker 1: in their own health and when they actually do meet
Speaker 1: with their physicians, they're able to advocate for themselves. And
Speaker 1: it's empowering as people may feel that they're the only
Speaker 1: ones suffering from health conditions and that's not the case. Yeah,
Speaker 1: women do feel isolated and need to share more. This
Speaker 1: does need to be normalized, and so when you're tracking
Speaker 1: your own menstrual cycle, you can say, hey, I don't
Speaker 1: think this is right, But you should be careful about
Speaker 1: apps that are free and don't tell you what they
Speaker 1: do with their data. What do you mean, Well, there
Speaker 1: have been some apps that, unfortunately, have violated the trust
Speaker 1: of their users by selling data. Oh man, can you
Speaker 1: imagine if someone put in that they have like two
Speaker 1: of vaginas? That'd be embarrassing. You should be very wary
Speaker 1: of apps that don't disclose what they do with your data.
Speaker 1: And that's unfortunate. Are you kidding me? More than nineteen
Speaker 1: million women in the US have downloaded the flow app,
Speaker 1: which tracks menstrual cycles and pregnancies, all of it personal information,
Speaker 1: but millions of women are now discus. Wink was also
Speaker 1: shared with other companies selling our ovulation data. These apps
Speaker 1: are snitching on our snatches. Who would do something like this?
Speaker 1: I decided to confront the woman person who gave them
Speaker 1: tech its lady name and created one of these suspicious
Speaker 1: chick apps. My name is I am the co founder
Speaker 1: of an appicle Clue, and we help people with cycles
Speaker 1: and women understand their minstrel health and their bodies. ETA.
Speaker 1: I have to be honest with you. I feel really violated.
Speaker 1: I mean I shared some of my deepest darkest secrets
Speaker 1: with these apps, my dense breasts, my unfriendly cervical environment.
Speaker 1: All the times I fantasize about the property brothers, how
Speaker 1: do I know that I'm ever going to be able
Speaker 1: to trust again? We have never sold your data and
Speaker 1: we will never sell your data. Look, Ata, I want
Speaker 1: to trust you, but this is not just a normal pact.
Speaker 1: We're talking periods here. This is a blood pact. I know.
Speaker 1: Let me take it really seriously. Okay, Well, how concerned
Speaker 1: should we be about this data leak? Is it like
Speaker 1: a day one league or a full blown day three?
Speaker 1: Tie a sweatshirt around your waist and pray for the
Speaker 1: best kind of week. We should be pretty worried because
Speaker 1: these are companies that deliberately have chosen to share more
Speaker 1: data than they had told their users that they would share.
Speaker 1: And that's not right. So how can we safely use
Speaker 1: these apps moving forward? Well it's hard, Honestly. In Europe
Speaker 1: we have really tough regulation and we've been checked, whereas
Speaker 1: in the US you are not being checked. So one
Speaker 1: good navigation is to see how does this company make money?
Speaker 1: And if you can't see how they make money, that's
Speaker 1: a red flag. So if it's free. That's a red flag.
Speaker 1: If you don't pay for the product you're using, you
Speaker 1: most likely are the product yourself. So clearly, fan tech
Speaker 1: is a lot like our bodies. We have to stay
Speaker 1: vigilant to make sure everything is functioning properly. So until
Speaker 1: they invent sent tech tech to monitor these apps, I
Speaker 1: guess we'll just have to track them ourselves. Watch The
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