Hi,
In a post-Roe America, your cell phone could be used against you to let
law enforcement know if you've visited an abortion care provider and even
where you went afterward.
That's because Google not just collects and retains a huge amount of cell
phone location data – they also give that data over to law enforcement
agencies.^1
Pro-choice and pro-privacy lawmakers in Congress are pressuring Google to
stop collecting this data and stop providing law enforcement with
location-based "geofencing warrants." Will you join them too?
[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition: Tell Google to stop collecting individual location
data now to protect abortion seekers from policing and geofence warrants!
ADD YOUR NAME
The internet was still in its infancy when the Supreme Court ruled in Roe
v Wade, but now it's an ever-present part of our lives. Which means that
privacy and reproductive justice are now even bigger technology issues.
Just days after the Supreme Court draft opinion that could potentially
overturn Roe v Wade was leaked, a data broker called SafeGraph was caught
selling location data of people who visited a Planned Parenthood for as
little as $160!^2
Make no mistake: this intimate level of cell phone location data should
never be collected in the first place. But it gets worse, because federal
law enforcement agencies like the Secret Service and Customs Border Patrol
have also been known to buy cell phone location data.
Right now, police use geofence warrants to harvest data about every person
in a given location at a specific time. These warrants – and the
individual location data they harvest – put people seeking abortions at
risk of policing and prosecution.
Without Roe, we're a hop, skip, and a jump away from right-wing government
officials tracking anyone who steps foot in an abortion clinic, and
weaponizing laws like the one passed in Texas to prosecute them.
Big Tech companies have a responsibility to act and protect users privacy
instead of serving users up like a platter to hostile anti-abortion
activists.
[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition: Tell Google to stop collecting individual location
data now to protect abortion seekers from policing and geofence warrants!
Thanks for taking action,
Tihi and the team at Demand Progress
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Sources:
1. NBC, "Cellphone dragnet used to find bank robbery suspect was
unconstitutional, judge says," [ [link removed] ]March 7, 2022.
2. Vice, "Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit
Abortion Clinics," [ [link removed] ]May 3, 2022.
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