Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics

[superpatriotman]

The company selling the data is SafeGraph. SafeGraph ultimately obtains location data from ordinary apps installed on peoples’ phones. Often app developers install code, called software development kits (SDKs), into their apps that sends users’ location data to companies in exchange for the developer receiving payment. Sometimes app users don’t know that their phone—be that via a prayer app, or a weather app—is collecting and sending location data to third parties, let alone some of the more dangerous use cases that Motherboard has reported on, including transferring data to U.S. military contractors. Planned Parenthood is not the organization performing the data collection nor benefiting from it financially.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vzjb/location-data-abortion-clinics-safegraph-planned-parenthood

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[Scrivener7]

1. A fucking prayer app.

[Freddie]

2. Anyone visiting a clinic (for any reason)

Should leave their real phone at home and carry a burner phone.

[Scrivener7]

4. tetedur's idea (below) is better.

[tetedur]

3. Everyone needs to visit the clinic and make a phone call.

Or just let them track everyone in town going to the clinic.