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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn a Post-Roe World, the Future of Digital Privacy Looks Even Grimmer
Welcome to the post-Roe era of digital privacy, a moment that underscores how the use of technology has made it practically impossible for Americans to evade ubiquitous tracking.
In states that have banned abortion, some women seeking out-of-state options to terminate pregnancies may end up following a long list of steps to try to shirk surveillance like connecting to the internet through an encrypted tunnel and using burner email addresses and reduce the likelihood of prosecution.
Even so, they could still be tracked. Law enforcement agencies can obtain court orders for access to detailed information, including location data logged by phone networks. And many police departments have their own surveillance technologies, like license plate readers.
That makes privacy-enhancing tools for consumers seem about as effective as rearranging the furniture in a room with no window drapes.
Theres no perfect solution, said Sinan Eren, an executive at Barracuda, a security firm. Your telecom network is your weakest link.
In other words, the state of digital privacy is already so far gone that forgoing the use of digital tools altogether may be the only way to keep information secure, security researchers said. Leaving mobile phones at home would help evade the persistent location tracking deployed by wireless carriers. Payments for prescription drugs and health services would ideally be made in cash. For travel, public transportation like a bus or a train would be more discreet than ride-hailing apps.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/13/technology/personaltech/abortion-privacy-roe-surveillance.html
Ollie Garkie
(186 posts)How batshit crazy are the prosecutions for abortion really going to get? Not that this doesn't all sound pretty fucking scary.
Arazi
(6,829 posts)Already happening. Going to get much worse. There are some states that are proposing the death penalty for women convicted of abortion
orthoclad
(2,910 posts)Check out Moore v. Harper on the docket.
EnergizedLib
(1,895 posts)Is push back, a la Kansas. If states wont put it up for a vote, vote forced birthers out.
usonian
(9,802 posts)Until this unconstitutional bullshit is knocked down.
Trusted sources for abortion information.
https://democraticunderground.com/100216891804
Digital Security and Privacy Tips for Those Involved in Abortion Access
https://democraticunderground.com/100216837332
The Hitchhikers Guide to Online Anonymity
https://anonymousplanet-ng.org/
When people let one "little" breach of the constitution after another slide, AND DON'T STAND UP TO INJUSTICE we all lose.
I posted recently:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-turned-chat-messages-mother-daughter-now-charged-abortion-rcna42185
Facebook turned over chat messages between mother and daughter now charged over abortion
Facebook turned over the chats of a mother and her daughter to Nebraska police after they were served with a warrant as part of an investigation into an illegal abortion, court documents show.
If we expect jurors to nullify unconstitutional laws against abortion (because, IMO, they establish one religion's beliefs as law, against other religions who do not share that belief,) then companies SHOULD REFUSE warrants based on blatantly unconstitutional laws.
BUT THEY DON'T
Zuckerberg, roast in hell.
As for nullification, STANDING UP TO TYRANNY is the RIGHT THING TO DO.
And "going with the flow" puts you, your company, in the company of cowards and "compliants" that tyrants need.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217012489
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/08/roe-v-wade-how-to-keep-women-who-have-abortions-from-going-to-prison.html
The One Thing People Can Do to Keep Anyone Who Has an Abortion Out of Prison
Restoring the rights lost in Dobbs will require massive political mobilizationfar more than any one person could possibly achieve. But one person is all it takes to stave off at least some of the most devastating harms of criminalization. A single jurors vote of not guilty can spare a defendantany potential parent, doctor, friend, or anyone else prosecuted and brought to trialfrom criminal conviction. Regardless of the strength of the evidence. Regardless of what the judge believes. Regardless of how many other jurors disagree. Its every jurors super-power.
Jury nullificationor the power of jurors to vote to acquit even in the face of overwhelming evidenceis rooted in English common law and has been an American tradition since before the nations founding. For instance, in 1735, a journalist and printer named John Peter Zenger was charged with libel for publishing articles critical of New Yorks colonial governor. Zenger did not deny publishing the articles. Instead, he argued that they were true. Although truth was not a valid defense to libel at the time, he asked the jury to acquit him on that ground nonetheless. They did. Other examples of nullification abound. Juries nullified prosecutions of abolitionists charged under the Fugitive Slave Act and businesspeople charged with alcohol-trafficking during Prohibition.
https://reason.com/2022/08/05/he-was-arrested-for-promoting-jury-nullification-a-federal-court-says-that-was-illegal/
He Was Arrested for Promoting Jury Nullification. A Federal Court Says That Was Illegal.
http://www.dorfonlaw.org/2022/05/nullification-in-abortion-prosecutions.html
Nullification in Abortion Prosecutions
Five Justices are poised to disrupt a half century of expectations, and there is little political recourse. It is precisely in such cases that the jury can serve as a bulwark against the injustices of the state(s).
Update, they did.
I'll promote this to a thread.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,346 posts)Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!
The radicalized Republican party seeks permanent, total control. Vote or submit.