Barbara Ortutay of AP reports: More than 40 Democratic members of Congress are asking Google to stop what they see as the unnecessary collection and retention of people’s location data, arguing the information could be used to identify women seeking abortions. Read more at Boston.com
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The Handmaid’s Trail: Abortion Surveillance After Roe
Read the report by Albert Fox Cahn, Esq. and Eleni Manis, PhD, MPA at https://www.stopspying.org/handmaids-trail or download the report (18 pp, pdf) here. Great thanks to Joe Cadillic for making us aware of this one.
The Rise of Reproductive Surveillance
Julia Angwin writes: Hello, friends, When a draft of a Supreme Court opinion that could overturn U.S. abortion rights leaked to the press earlier this month, I started to panic about my 17-year-old daughter’s future. Although we live in New York, which is not one of the 26 states that are certain or likely to ban abortion if the…
As FTC Warns EdTech Providers Against Student Surveillance, EPIC Urges Further Action
From EPIC.org, May 19 – The Federal Trade Commission today unanimously approved a policy statement that prioritizes enforcement of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) against education technology providers and warns companies not to make surveillance a condition of accessing educational tools. The use of edtech expanded dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Children should not have…