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.
How can we achieve digital justice in the age of COVID-19? This book explores how the pandemic has transformed our use and perception of digital technologies in various settings. It also examines the right to resist or reject these technologies and the politics of refusal in different contexts and scenarios. The book offers a timely and original analysis of the new realities and challenges of digital technologies, paving the way for a post-COVID-19 future.How can we achieve digital justice in the age of COVID-19? This book explores how the pandemic has transformed our use and perception of digital technologies in various settings. It also examines the right to resist or reject these technologies and the politics of refusal in different contexts and scenarios. The book offers a timely and original analysis of the new realities and challenges of digital technologies, paving the way for a post-COVID-19 future.Leading experts in the field ask what digital justice looks like in a time of pandemic across various interdisciplinary contexts and spheres in science, technology and society from public health to education, politics and everyday life.