With Roe in Doubt, Some Fear Tech Surveillance of Pregnancy

[Judi Lynn]

May 22, 2022 12:43 PM
UPDATE May 22, 2022 12:41 PM
Associated Press

When Chandler Jones realized she was pregnant during her junior year of college, she turned to a trusted source for information and advice.

Her cellphone.

"I couldn't imagine before the internet, trying to navigate this," said Jones, 26, who graduated Tuesday from the University of Baltimore School of Law. "I didn't know if hospitals did abortions. I knew Planned Parenthood did abortions, but there were none near me. So I kind of just Googled."

But with each search, Jones was being surreptitiously followed — by the phone apps and browsers that track us as we click away, capturing even our most sensitive health data.

Online searches. Period apps. Fitness trackers. Advice helplines. GPS. The often obscure companies collecting our health history and geolocation data may know more about us than we know ourselves.

More:
https://www.voanews.com/a/with-roe-in-doubt-some-fear-tech-surveillance-of-pregnancy-/6580998.html

[Skittles]

1. OK all us pro-choice people

need to periodically google that stuff too

yes indeed

[kimbutgar]

2. I don't get that her university does not have a health center

In the 70’s at my college we had a health center where you could get reproductive advice and a prescription birth control pills and other methods of birth control. One of my dorm mates found out she was pregnant after breaking up with her boyfriend. She went to the health center and they gave her the information where for her to get an abortion. She had to drive 50 miles to get it then. Things seem to have gotten worst for young women nowadays.

[intheflow]

3. My university's health center was a joke.

And it was a well funded, fairly prestigious state school, 25 years ago. The college athletes got good care but the services for the rest of us were pretty much nonexistent.