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Period Tracker Risk Scorecard by State
How every US state ranks for period tracker data risk: abortion law status, data privacy protections, shield laws, and subpoena exposure.
How We Score States Each state is classified into one of five risk tiers based on three factors: 1. Abortion law status banned, restricted, legal access, or constitutionally protected 2. Data privacy protections whether the state has a law that specifically protects reproductive or health data 3. Shield law whether the state blocks interstate enforcement of abortion related legal process States with criminal abortion bans and no data privacy law score highest risk. States with specific reproductive data protections and shield laws score lowest. The tiers are not a legal opinion they are a factual classification of what laws exist and what enforcement tools are available. Tier 1: Danger Zone Criminal abortion ban + no comprehensive data privacy law + no shield law. These states have the strongest motivation to access reproductive health data and the fewest legal barriers to doing so. Prosecutors face minimal restrictions on obtaining period tracker data through standard subpoenas, court orders, or data broker purchases. In these states, a cloud based period tracker creates a record that prosecutors can access through routine legal process served on the app company. The company's pri