Anti-Abortion Centers Find Pregnant Teens Online, Then Save Their Data

Earlier times did not have lightning fast communications and global online tracking tools. The conservative crusade against abortion is also a recent phenomenon, historically speaking. Benjamin Franklin gave instructions on at-home abortions in a book in the 1700s [1]. And the ancient Romans used a plant called silphium for birth control, to a point where the plant went extinct. [2]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/05/18/1099542962/abortion-ben-frank...

[2] https://allthatsinteresting.com/silphium

Re: Anti-Abortion Centers Find Pregnant Teens Online, Then Save Their Data

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Post by Hamuko » Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 1:46 PM UTC

Never realised that the pro-choice movement in the US also needs GDPR to protect themselves.

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Post by clarge1120 » Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 1:47 PM UTC

bbarn wrote: post #4

A former girlfriend of mine went to what she thought was a clinic, and was effectively scared out of having one, and had twins at 18. These scummy tactics work, or people wouldn't do them.

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Post by jakelazaroff » Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 1:47 PM UTC

kderbyma wrote: post #3

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They’re not. That’s the fucked up thing.

Re: Anti-Abortion Centers Find Pregnant Teens Online, Then Save Their Data

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Post by mikece » Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 1:48 PM UTC

I suspect this story will be Cambridge Analytica 2.0: making use of the tools sold by big tech to achieve an ideological end.

(Isn't everyone doing this?)