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Hi, Shortwaveers, Aaron Scott here.

With the recent Supreme Court draft leak, a lot of people have been wondering what overturning

Roe v Wade would mean for privacy protections, especially data privacy, because our devices

often hold so much intimate information.

Well, it's a question our friends over at It's been a minute, dug into recently.

So today, we're going to pass the mic so they can share the answers they found.

Here listening to It's been a minute from NPR, I'm Elise Hugh.

Alright, we live so much of our lives on the internet, and information is always only

a search away.

We track our health, whether it's exercise or sleep or heart rate on our apps, and increasingly

we're seeing our doctors online or getting medications delivered to us, straight to our

homes.

But if a federal protection for abortion ends nationally, and we have to reckon with

individual states getting more involved with our intimate lives, it kicks up a lot of

questions about the information we store and the information we can get.

Whether you're searching on Google or whether you download, you know, an app, even your

Fitbit, we're constantly sort of entering questions about our health or we're tracking

various things, and I think it is not made clear to people sort of who gets access to

the data, who are they selling it to, even when you delete the app that doesn't mean

that you've deleted the data.

That's journalist Rachel Cohen.

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