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Flo Anonymous Mode: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 | TIME

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W hen the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the right to abortion access in June 2022, fears arose that legislators might leverage companies’ data to track women’s reproductive health. So that September, period-­tracking app Flo put out a new option called Anonymous Mode, which can “completely decouple health information from the identity of the user,” according to chief technology officer Roman Bugaev. The constantly updated service, available to Flo subscribers at no extra charge, was developed with web-­infrastructure company Cloudflare. Earlier this year, Flo released an open-source version. CONTACT US AT LETTERS@TIME.COM. These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the si

When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the right to abortion access in June 2022, fears arose that legislators might leverage companies’ data to track women’s reproductive health. So that September, period-­tracking app Flo put out a new option called Anonymous Mode, which can “completely decouple health information from the identity of the user,” according to chief technology officer Roman Bugaev. The constantly updated service, available to Flo subscribers at no extra charge, was developed with web-­infrastructure company Cloudflare. Earlier this year, Flo released an open-source version.

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