Would You Wear a Period-Tracker Funded by Peter Thiel?
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The article discusses a period-tracker wearable funded by Peter Thiel, sparking concerns about data collection and the conservative ideology behind the project.
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> This true nightmare fuel is a project of Brittany Hugoboom, the conservative influencer who created Evie and a period-tracking app with her husband, Gabriel. It gets worse: the Hugobooms are funded by none other than pronatalist Trump ally, Peter Thiel.
> That’s right, the billionaire behind Palantir and the rise of JD Vance is very interested in women’s pregnancies: Thiel bankrolled Hugoboom’s “28” app, which has raised all sorts of questions about data-collection and privacy in post-Roe America.
The "pronatalist" description of Thiel had me curious, so I looked that up and he does have a history of funding fertility companies and pushing for higher birthrates: https://www.techpolicy.press/tech-oligarchs-and-the-rise-of-...
https://x.com/AutismCapital/status/1824669688934363177
> PETER THIEL ON DECLINING BIRTH RATE:
> “Once you get an inverted demographic pyramid, at some point do you vote for benefits for the old or for the young? If the people with kids get financially penalized and the people without kids vote benefits for themselves, it will be very difficult to flip back.”