Friend,
When the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, people who want abortions
will need to travel to states like California, where abortion will still
be protected.
But anti-abortion states are passing laws to prevent people from obtaining
out-of-state reproductive care.(1) And even more terrifying, information
brokers are selling location data for people that visit abortion clinics –
setting up police in states where abortion is illegal to use data from
smartphones to track and prosecute people seeking essential abortion
care.(2)
That’s why Courage California is demanding that Google stop collecting
location data, so that the privacy of all people can be protected and
abortion seekers may be kept safe.
[ [link removed] ]Sign our petition and tell Google to delete location data and protect
people seeking abortions!
There is already dangerous precedent for this terrible use of location
data. In Seattle, police used geofence warrants to harvest location data
about people who were near a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest, and police
across the country are increasingly relying on location data to surveil
communities.(3)
And an anti-abortion group used location data to target patients in
Planned Parenthood clinics and send them disinformation-filled
advertisements designed to shame and scare them away.(4)
By continuing to collect and store location data, companies like Google
are putting people seeking abortions at increased risk of criminalization.
Police can use that location data to identify people visiting abortion
clinics, and right-wing prosecutors can obtain warrants to use location
data to jail pregnant people and people seeking abortions.(5)
[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition to tell Google to delete location data and defend
safe access to essential abortion care!
Yours in the fight for reproductive freedom,
Mai, along with Amber, Angela, Annie, Irene, Isidra, Jay, Lindsay,
LisaMarie, Mai, Raquel and Scottie (the Courage team)
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