Fifty years ago this past Sunday, federal abortion rights were seemingly enshrined into law as the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the historic Roe v. Wade case.
Today, federal abortion rights have been stripped away, simultaneously ushering a new era of government control and surveillance. I’ve written previously about Big Tech aiding in the enforcement of anti-abortion laws. Police can use various apps, including social media platforms, to snoop on pregnant people and potential abortion-seekers. And a new report from ProPublica helps show how real that threat actually is.
Last week, ProPublica released an investigation showing several online pharmacies use tracking technology to collect data on users’ web behaviors, and then give that data to third parties like Google to be used for targeted ads … or worse.
According to ProPublica:
Those details include the web addresses the users visited, what they clicked on, the search terms they used to find a website, the…
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