How Data Tracking Could Be Used To Prosecute Abortion
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🗓️ 11 May 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
As the Supreme Court considers overturning or scaling back Roe, online privacy and pro-choice advocates are concerned about how police might use data from someone’s phone or computer to prosecute or charge them for seeking an abortion in states where it could be deemed illegal. Sara Morrison, a senior reporter for Recode, joins us to discuss the need for more data privacy laws in a post-Roe world.
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Show Notes:
- Recode: “What police could find out about your illegal abortion” – https://bit.ly/3smK6nt
- Mother Jones: “Meet Abortion Bans’ New Best Friend—Your Phone” – https://bit.ly/38l0aPN
- Ban Off Our Bodies Rally on May 14th – https://bit.ly/3P1KxgN
- Donate to abortion funds, take action and more via Vote Save America – votesaveamerica.com/roe
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, May 11th. I'm Gideon Resnick. |
| 0:08.4 | And I am Priyanka Erbindi and this is Buta Day, the podcast that gives you all the news |
| 0:13.8 | in less time than it takes the Senate to pass a bill giving police protection to the |
| 0:18.2 | families of Supreme Court justices. |
| 0:20.5 | Yes, and to be clear, they do that very fast. |
| 0:23.1 | You know, just like Whata Day, they can be extremely efficient when need be. |
| 0:27.3 | Mm hmm. |
| 0:30.3 | On Today's show, there is a nationwide shortage of baby formula, plus President Biden says |
| 0:36.2 | tackling inflation is his number one domestic priority. |
| 0:39.4 | But first, we want to continue the conversation we have been having about what could happen |
| 0:43.6 | if Roe v Wade is overturned in the next month or so by the Supreme Court. |
| 0:48.8 | We have talked on the show before about how abortion would definitely or likely become |
| 0:52.9 | illegal in at least 26 states if Roe were overturned. |
| 0:56.9 | But Gideon, you also wanted to talk about how police could go about enforcing a ban on |
| 1:01.1 | abortion. |
| 1:02.1 | So tell us a little more about how that could happen. |
| 1:04.4 | Yes. |
| 1:05.4 | So one thing that we don't always think about is how data from our phones, computers, tablets |
| 1:09.5 | and apps could be used by law enforcement to investigate crimes. |
| 1:13.6 | That's in addition to what anything private companies might do with your data on their own. |
| 1:18.6 | We hear, you know, horror stories about that pretty often. |
| 1:21.3 | Right. |
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