How Digital Privacy Will Be At Risk in Post-Roe America

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🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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After the Supreme Court’s draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked, some abortion advocates recommended that people delete apps that track menstrual cycles for fear that this information could be used against them in a post-Roe America. Given the draft opinion’s conclusions questioning the right to privacy, digital privacy experts warned that private search queries and health data could be weaponized — against everyone. With all the personal information our phones contain, we’ll talk about the implications of a post-Roe America for personal data, community surveillance and the constitutional right to privacy itself. And we want to hear from you: What are your questions about data and privacy post-Roe? What actions are you taking to protect your personal data? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:13.6	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim. Coming up on forum, the potential loss of Roe, which enshrined the right to an abortion
1:18.6	and expanded the court's understanding of privacy has wide-reaching implications.
1:23.6	In this hour, we take a closer look at online privacy, from search queries
1:29.0	for the morning after pill to tracking the location data of people visiting reproductive
1:33.2	health clinics. We'll hear from legal and online data experts on what worries them about
1:38.0	digital surveillance in a post-row America and what's already happening to our private data. Join us.
1:44.8	This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. In the wake of the League Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade,
2:02.4	digital privacy experts and advocates are warning that online searches and health data
2:07.4	are more sensitive than ever and advising people to rethink the web browsers or even period
2:13.6	tracking apps that they're using. This hour, we look at how these pieces of data
2:19.1	could be used against people seeking abortions, and in some cases already have been with legal
2:24.9	and online data experts. And joining me now is Nicole Ozer, the technology and civil liberties
2:30.2	director of the ACLU of California. Welcome, Nicole. Thanks so much for having me,
2:36.3	though. I certainly wish you were under different circumstances. Yes, really appreciate having
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