This could be seen as a life-endangering move, and the data company should be held reliable, not just for this act, but also for any problems their victims have to endure.
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2024
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They sold the data fully understanding what it could be used for. I imagine the deal brokered was by a MAGA supporter who works with this data company.
People like that belong behind bars. They are a danger to humans.
Holy crap that's dark. Now I have even less sympathy for the companies losing revenue from chrome removing third party cookies
You don't need cookies for this kind of targeting....
Now, people needing an abortion also need a burner paid for winth cash. Fantastic.
This is exactly why we need privacy laws.
I’m male, and my voice is pretty unmistakeable so I can’t very well man the hotlines for agencies helping women find ways to get out of shitty states and have abortions.
I’d happily run all over the tri-state acquiring burners by the bunch though, for this exact use case.
Sounds like a plan. I'll remember this. Thanks.
And a fake name, and fake everything else as well.
Totally. It's grim.
thanks for reminding me why I use an ad blocker (and why I hate pro-life fuckers)
Your ad blocker doesn't block location data if your mobile carrier is selling it to these brokers (and they almost certainly are).
It's why there's been such an effort to move to apps instead of webpages that can do the same thing. More data collection and notifications.
That’s been the trend for more than a decade though. Some companies are more militant about it than others.
Kind of like the other site.
Yeah, didn't want to name it, lol.
Veritas
There's a fucking surprise. Pond scum.
I'm not even surprised any more. I take a bold guess at what absolutely hideous shit I'll read today and I'm still always surprised.
Surely they're just interested in advertising products popular with newly aborting mothers. /S
This shit happened in 2022 too. Nothing has changed. There needs to be more outcry.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vzjb/location-data-abortion-clinics-safegraph-planned-parenthood
Seems lawsuits are how we motivate policy. Gotta sue companies into the ground, for policy or law change.
Not only that, but hackers stole every single last bit of patient data from hospitals all over Ontario in Canada as well. I daresay, if you've had an abortion, you exist on some right wing assholes list somewhere.