Abstract
This chapter frames the situation regarding menstrual and fertility apps in the context of post-pandemic health app-ization and datafication, which lead to increased digital surveillance and digital authoritarianism. This chapter shows how acutely aware women are becoming of how vulnerable apps and the personal data contained therein are making them in relation to state surveillance capitalism. Social media discourse and sentiment analysis are used to understand how, in the immediate aftermath of the overturning of Roe vs Wade in the US, women and their allies strove to effectively delete data, digitally disengage, algorithmically disrupt data or opt-out of sharing their data via period-tracking apps. Tracking practices of deletion, disruption and opt-out, this chapter theorizes digital disengagement as a form of resistance, addressing the ongoing tensions that can arise between a more technologically informed public and the authorities in terms of the need to protect rights to self-track health without criminalization.
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