Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Tuesday, June 28th, 2022.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Why There's a huge tech angle to the whole Roe v Wade controversy.

Google's shutting down one of their chat apps, but even I can't be bothered to figure out which

one or why.

Airbnb is permanently putting the Kaibachsh on parties and will Starlink RV allow all of us to take

off into the wild and still do our work.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. So you know I try to avoid politics on the show when I can but when there's a huge

tech angle to something I really can't avoid it. The Supreme Court's recent overturning of Roe v. Wade has lots of folks worried that that decision could be used to curb online freedoms and surveil vulnerable populations.

A big concern is basically the whole modern tech surveillance machine which could be used to do things like alert authorities of likely pregnancies.

There's also, you know, user location, the searches you make, and the data collected by

tech companies that could be used in abortion-related criminal prosecutions.

There already have been stories of third-party data brokers that were selling the location

data of visitors to plan parenthood clinics, for example.

Coding Axios.

While tech companies were loath to talk on the record about how they might address such legal requests in a post-Roe-V-Wade abortion case.

Lawyers and other executives at several companies are definitely having these discussions.

Law enforcement requests could come in the form of seeking

data for a specific person or seeking say all people who are near a particular clinic or

maybe all out of state residents near a clinic, in addition to non-medical

information such as location, shopping, and search data, medical records

themselves could be targeted and those records are far more digitized than

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