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When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, menstruators lost their right to an abortion. And our right to privacy was threatened in ways many still don’t even comprehend. Because, in an era of data tracking and digital surveillance, the things you buy and search for online and in person can have been used to prosecute women again and again and again. Even something as simple as buying a pregnancy test can be turned into a piece of evidence.

That’s why we’re bringing attention to this issue with The Tampon Test - a pregnancy test disguised as a tampon. It’s period care that doubles as abortion care. Invisible in real life and in your personal data history. And, it means that menstruators who live in states with six week abortion bans always have a test on hand, with the first period care box that prevents all kinds of leakage.

We have partnered with Stix and Plan C to help provide menstruators with the tools they need to access the information needed to help them make a choice. But because people have been unjustly criminalized for taking care of their own health needs, accessing that information in a secure way is as important as what your choice is.

AVOID ADS RELATED TO PREGNANCY AND ABORTION:

  • Use DuckDuckGo to search instead of Google
  • Turn off location sharing on your devices
  • Use Firefox Focus instead of your phone’s default browser
  • Disable your mobile ad ID (Settings>Privacy>Advertising>Limit Ad Tracking

STOP PHONE COMPANIES FROM HAVING YOUR BROWSING HISTORY AND TEXTS

  • Use encrypted email (like Proton Mail) or end-to-end encrypted chat (like Signal, Wire or Matrix)
  • Use a No-Logs VPN (Virtual Private Network) or the TOR browser to browse privately

KEEP OTHERS FROM SEEING YOUR MESSAGES OR BROWSER HISTORY

  • Use a strong PIN on your device
  • Clear browsing history
  • Browse in an incognito window
  • Turn on disappearing messages in secure messaging apps

TAKE ACTION

CONTACT YOUR LEGISLATOR 
Use find your congressperson or senator and tell them you want them to support the “my body, my data” legislation to help create a new national standard to protect personal reproductive health data.

Call your representative:

“My name is ______ and I’m a constituent. I’m calling to urge you to support the My Body, My Data Act and set a new national standard to protect reproductive and sexual health data. No one should be prosecuted for seeking reproductive care.”

Take action on social and tag your representative on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook:

“@YourRepresentative, I’m a constituent. I’m asking you to support the My Body, My Data Act and set a new national standard to protect reproductive and sexual health data. No one should be prosecuted for seeking reproductive care. #SynchPeriodsNotData”

Educate yourself and your family and friends on how your data is being used and where it is being stored.

The “My Body, My Data Act” is endorsed by the following organizations: Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), NARAL Pro-Choice America, Physicians for Reproductive Health (PRH), National Partnership for Women & Families, National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), National Abortion Federation, Catholics for Choice, National Council for Jewish Women, Feminist Majority, Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity (URGE), and Indivisible.

DONATE

From June 21 to 28, August is donating 15% of every purchase on our site to Plan C.

This is not a real August product and will not be available for sale. This fictional product was created to bring awareness to the issue of data privacy on the subject of abortions.