The anti-abortion movement is—no surprise—committed to stopping this flow of patients and abortion pills across state lines. One strategy that has recently emerged is an effort to revive and reinterpret the Comstock Act, a 19th-century anti-vice law that the movement claims makes sending or receiving any abortion drug or device in the mail a federal … Read more
A case out of Nebraska involving a mother and her teenage daughter could offer a preview of how digital footprints could be used to enforce abortion laws. Read more at 19th News
“After the fall of Roe, we’re realizing that everyone is at risk from every segment of society,” she said. “So I’m hopeful that this is an opportunity to help more and more Americans realize how dangerous state surveillance is for all of us.” Read more at Huffpost
Using a tool created by the Markup, a nonprofit tech-journalism newsroom, ProPublica ran checks on 11 online pharmacies that sell abortion medication to reveal the web tracking technology they use. Late last year and in early January, ProPublica found web trackers on the sites of at least nine online pharmacies that provide pills by mail: … Read more
In a second case, another researcher, Aditi Ramesh, turned on location tracking on a new Android device. She then traveled to two Planned Parenthood locations in Los Angeles in October. In both cases, screenshots show that while the exact address wasn’t stored in her Google timeline, the routes were retained and, in one case, the … Read more
