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This will never be exposed in a data leak. It will never be used in legal proceedings. It will never be used to embarrass politicians. These records will never contain any errors. It is absolutely harmless to share this information with advertisers, data brokers, and government agencies.

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Presumably, an app developer needs to save data in this format for android to ever use it. Github - which is not the universal published code repository - only has 178 code instances [0] that create this kind of record, 95 in kotlin and 4 in typescript (others are text, xml, long tail formats).

I would venture that an android app that allows people to self record a sexual experience will use their own format, presumably to capture more of the dimensions available (ex participants, location).

[0] https://github.com/search?q=SexualActivityRecord&type=code

And maybe just as sensitive, ovulation record.

https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/health/conn...

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