The Importance of Collective Privacy in Digital Sexual and Reproductive Health
Teresa Almeida, Maryam Mehrnezhad, Stephen Cook
TL;DR
This paper highlights the critical importance of collective privacy in digital sexual and reproductive health, emphasizing how data breaches can impact individuals and their broader social networks.
Contribution
It introduces the concept of collective privacy in digital sexual health, analyzing IoT devices to reveal privacy risks affecting individuals and their social circles.
Findings
Digital health data implicates partners, children, and families.
Privacy concerns extend beyond individuals to collective groups.
Analysis of 15 IoT devices reveals significant privacy vulnerabilities.
Abstract
There is an abundance of digital sexual and reproductive health technologies that presents a concern regarding their potential sensitive data breaches. We analyzed 15 Internet of Things (IoT) devices with sexual and reproductive tracking services and found this ever-extending collection of data implicates many beyond the individual including partner, child, and family. Results suggest that digital sexual and reproductive health data privacy is both an individual and collective endeavor.
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Taxonomy
TopicsReproductive Health and Technologies · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection