Privacy-first femtech founder. Thirty years in distributed systems. Writing and speaking on privacy infrastructure, AI prompt authorship, and what gets encoded into women's health technology.https://marycamacho.com/en-ushttps://marycamacho.com/writing/who-wants-neurological-data-on-midlife-women/https://marycamacho.com/writing/who-wants-neurological-data-on-midlife-women/Recent research has moved midlife symptom data from the wellness category into the neurological one. Almost no one is talking about what that means for the data women have already generated, or for where they generate it next.Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTprivacy-architecturefemtechdata-protectionmenopauseaihttps://marycamacho.com/writing/privacy-led-ux-is-the-surface/https://marycamacho.com/writing/privacy-led-ux-is-the-surface/A reaction to MIT Technology Review and Usercentrics's Privacy-Led UX in the AI Era. The report draws the surface beautifully. The architecture is the thing the surface is reflecting back.Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTprivacy-architectureaiuxconsenthttps://marycamacho.com/writing/a-different-kind-of-vessel/https://marycamacho.com/writing/a-different-kind-of-vessel/What if there were a privacy-first federated AI model for women's wellness — and what if we, collectively in femtech, owned it?Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTprivacy-architectureaifemtechcooperativehttps://marycamacho.com/writing/there-is-no-privacy-paradox/https://marycamacho.com/writing/there-is-no-privacy-paradox/A reaction to recent ChatGPT-influencer research. The privacy paradox isn't a paradox — it's the sound of an architecture working exactly as designed.Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTprivacy-architectureaiconsenthttps://marycamacho.com/writing/pre-authorized-claude-desktop/https://marycamacho.com/writing/pre-authorized-claude-desktop/A forensic report on Claude Desktop's silent browser-bridge installation is the AI industry's Flo moment — the same consent-stretch pattern femtech already learned, now playing out at the assistant layer.Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTprivacy-architectureaiconsentfemtechhttps://marycamacho.com/writing/the-5b-wake-up-call/https://marycamacho.com/writing/the-5b-wake-up-call/When a San Francisco jury ruled Meta intentionally intercepted menstrual data from millions of Flo users, surveillance health tech hit its liability ceiling. What founders should take from it.Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTprivacy-architecturefemtechdata-protectionregulatory