AUSTIN, Texas — Nicole Perry is a Central Texas high school student and a proud advocate for equality and women’s rights, especially when it comes to taking a stand for issues pertaining to her body.

In wake of the leaked Supreme Court draft that could possibly overturn Roe v. Wade, Perry is one of millions of women expressing concern over data and privacy pertaining to popular period-tracking apps.

“There’s so many benefits to technology and that we can turn it around this quickly into something used to controlling people, it was scary,” said Perry.

Perry feels the apps make things easier for women to manage life in general while planning ahead.

“It’s a very personal thing to be sharing someone’s reproductive organs, their cycle. That’s a very, very invasive thing”

Privacy experts believe if abortion becomes illegal at the state level, the data on apps could be used in court or sold to a third party as evidence. The data could ultimately track when someone has had or is considering an abortion.

“I kinda thought it was a joke at first, like they can’t really be wanting to take data from period tracking app, they can’t want to track peoples fertilization and cycles like that,” Perry said.

Daly Barnett is staff technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She says data being shared from period tracking apps is a real concern for women across the country.

“The overturn of Roe v. Wade hasn’t happened officially yet. We’re waiting for that to happen in June. But we already have so many examples of data being used against people, so the best thing we can do now is speculate and we’re not sure how these platforms will respond to law enforcement request, subpoena and warrants. It’s a very real concern, however. I think we need to think of it broader than that. There could be data from people’s entire digital footprint that can be weaponized in this case,” said Barnett.