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CYBER

How the End of Roe Will Change Privacy

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, upsetting decades of precedent and ushering in a weird new world of conflicting laws and a lack of bodily autonomy for many women in the country. 


It’s a decision that will affect life in the U.S. in ways we’re only starting to comprehend. This week on Cyber we’re going to look at one small piece of all this: tech, data, and censorship. 


With me today is Motherboard Senior Editor Samantha Cole. She’s been working on a number of stories about period tracking apps and data and she’s here to walk us through how the Roe decision is not just a blow against bodily autonomy, but also against privacy.


Stories in this episode:


The #1 Period Tracker on the App Store Will Hand Over Data Without a Warrant


Here’s What Period Tracking Apps Say They Do With Your Data


Tech Companies Won't Say If They’ll Give Cops Abortion Data


Facebook Is Banning People Who Say They Will Mail Abortion Pills


We’re recording CYBER live on Twitch. Watch live during the week. Follow us there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show.


Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

TAM! It's got the code it's going to launch.

0:10.0

It's a unit system. I know this.

0:14.0

It's how all the files are the old park. It tells her everything.

0:18.0

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.8

Eagle one.

0:23.2

The package is being delivered.

0:26.4

Hello out there on the internet.

0:28.5

I am Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber.

0:31.5

The Supreme Court has overturned Rovia Wade,

0:36.0

upsetting decades of precedent in ushering in a weird new world of conflicting laws and a lack of bodily autonomy for many women in the country.

0:39.6

It is a decision that will affect the life in the U.S. in ways that we're only starting to comprehend.

0:46.1

This week on cyber, we're going to look at one of the small, one small piece of all of this, tech, data, and censorship.

0:53.6

With me today is Motherboard Senior Editor Samantha Cole.

0:56.1

She's been working on a number of stories about period tracking apps and data, and she's

1:00.5

here to walk us through how the road decision is not just a blow against bodily autonomy,

1:04.9

but also against privacy.

1:06.4

Sam, thank you so much for coming back onto the show and walking us through this.

1:10.6

Always a pleasure.

1:12.0

Hello.

1:12.7

Hello.

1:13.3

So my first, so I've got a lot of really dumb questions up top for people that may not

1:20.7

understand how period tracking apps work and why it's important.

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