Senate Democrats Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden, and Cory Booker and Congresswoman Sara Jacobs are concerned that mobile tracking software created by Apple and Google could be used to “hunt down women” seeking abortions.
Individuals seeking abortions and other reproductive healthcare will become particularly vulnerable to privacy harms, including through the collection and sharing of their location data, should the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, the group said in a June 24 letter to the Federal Trade Commission. The same day, the Supreme Court overturned Roe V Wade and sent abortion regulation back to state legislatures.
According to Fox Business , the Democratic lawmakers are “urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Apple and Google for failing to warn consumers about the potential harms associated with advertising-specific tracking IDs in their mobile operating systems.”
Google and Apple employ tracking technology on their devices which keeps records of users’ geographic movement. The data […]
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