Julia Angwin writes: Hello, friends, In the wake of the Supreme Court’s jaw-dropping ruling overturning constitutional protections for abortion in the United States, there’s been a lot of discussion about how to keep data about pregnant people private. Google announced, for instance, that it would remove sensitive locations, such as abortion clinics, from the location data it stores…
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After Dobbs, Advocates Fear School Surveillance Tools Could Put Teens at Risk
After Dobbs, Advocates Fear School Surveillance Tools Could Put Teens at Risk Monitoring software could be easily adapted to flag abortion-related searches By: Todd Feathers As states rush to enact laws criminalizing abortion-related care in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decision overturning Roe v. Wade, health advocates and civil rights groups are warning…
Biden signs executive order on abortion, declares Supreme Court ‘out of control’
Jeff Mason and Nandita Bose report: U.S. President Joe Biden said the Supreme Court decision overturning the right to an abortion was an exercise in “raw political power” and signed an executive order on Friday to ease access to services to terminate pregnancies. Biden, a Democrat, has been under pressure from his own party to…
Europe’s state of mass surveillance
Vincent Manancourt reports: Jack Murphy* was suspicious. His ex-girlfriend, Eve Doherty, seemed to know a lot about who he was calling. His suspicions were merited. Doherty had been using her job in the Irish police force to access his phone records, an investigation by the local judiciary revealed. Doherty was disciplined and transferred in 2011. Three…