Pregnancy persists on the internet despite miscarriage in real life

A pregnancy-tracking app collected basic information such as name, address, age, and date of last period from its users. A woman who miscarried found that although she had entered the miscarriage into the app to terminate its tracking, the information was not passed along to the marketers to which the app's developer had sold it. A few weeks before her original due date, a package was delivered to her home including a note of congratulations and a box of baby formula. Although the baby had died in real life, it remained alive on the internet as a marketing opportunity.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/fashion/modern-love-pregnancy-miscarriage-app-technology.html

Writer: Amy Pittman
Publication: New York Times
Publication date: 2016-09-04