These Companies Know When You're Pregnant--And They're Not Keeping It Secret (UPDATED)

[Warpy]

24. Farcebook is the worst, but it's not the only source

ATM and credit card purchases are tracked, so buy that pregnancy test kit for cash, kiddies, and don't use that supermarket discount card, either. Going to Planned Parenthood for a checkup? Leave that phone at home, those are tracked. Online searches are tracked. If you can't afford a VPN, use Ghostery to eliminate beacons and trackers and a search engine that clears your data daily, like DuckDuckGo or Start Page. Set your browser to clear cookies, cache and history when you close it. This won't stop you from being tracked, but it will slow them down. And ferkrissakes, dump Facebook. It's evil.

Probably 99% of trackers just want to sell you something. It's that 1% that are worrisome, the political hacks and the rabid antiabortion crowd who buy into a religion that says it's OK to lie, cheat, steal, and murder as long as they do it for Jesus. This is what we're all up against.

Data protection laws will be very slow in coming. Political hacks rely on having no laws.