How To Get An Abortion In the Age of Surveillance

[Deep State Witch]

https://gizmodo.com/how-to-get-an-abortion-keep-personal-information-safe-1848874362

Here’s a cautionary tale: in 2015, a Massachusetts pro-life group tapped a local digital ad company, Copley Advertising, to set up digital boundaries (or “geofences”) around Planned Parenthood branches and other reproductive health clinics in nearby cities. When people walked into these buildings, phone in hand (or pocket), those geofences registered that device crossing the line via mobile data like GPS or those aforementioned bluetooth broadcast signals.

Once these women were inside the fence, Copley pummeled their devices with ads for “abortion alternatives,” like adoption. Roughly 800,000 women were targeted by the campaign, and these ads kept playing for weeks after they left the clinic. And because of the way mobile ads work, every ad that played sent back a pretty sizable amount of data about these women’s devices directly back to the agency, and the pro-life group that contracted it.

Two years later, Boston Attorney General Maura Healey would sue and quickly settle with the ad agency on the condition that the agency never geotarget clinics in the state with its creepy ads again. The practice remains legal for others, though, and those marketing pro-life “abortion alternatives” still make use of it.

[Liberty Belle]

1. Short or leaving one's phone at home, is there any way to prevent this?

Does it still work if the phone is turned off, or in airplane mode?

Maybe Dems can slip language into some omnibus bill on health to ban this practice.

[LeftInTX]

2. Geolocation works in airplane mode! I use it all the time for my canvassing app

The canvassing app is a battery drain, so I put my phone on airplane mode.