Business Insider is reporting that VICE was able to buy a data set of phone information (locations) associated with abortion clinics, legally, for $160.
Your phone is spying on you, and anti-abortion forces could use it against you, especially in states that ban abortion. And they can track if you cross state lines.
Be careful.
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Vice bought a dataset from Safegraph for $160, which included a week's worth of phone location data for 600 Planned Parenthoods in the US. Not every Planned Parenthood provides abortion services but Vice reported that it verified some of the locations included in the dataset do.
While there are already privacy issues with sensitive location data being sold on by data brokers, Vice's report is especially concerning in the light of a leaked Supreme Court draft which shows the court could be poised to strike down Roe v. Wade.
If Roe v. Wade is overturned, abortion would likely become illegal in 23 states.
The data sold by data brokers like Safegraph is aggregated, meaning it doesn't single out individuals. However, it is possible to de-anonymize people from datasets provided by data brokers.
Cybersecurity researcher Zach Edwards told Vice that if Roe v. Wade is overturned, location data could be used to harass people traveling across state lines to access abortions, as well as the clinics who provide them.”
(I corrected the spelling of the words “harass” and traveling.” Apparently spellcheck was unknown to the author.)