Your location data isn’t just a pin on a map—it’s a powerful tool that reveals far more than most people realize. It can expose where you work, where you pray, who you spend time with, and, sometimes dangerously, where you seek healthcare. In today’s world, your most private movements are harvested, aggregated, and sold to anyone with a credit card. For those seeking reproductive or gender-affirming care, or visiting a protest or a immigration law clinic, this data is a ticking time bomb.
Last year, we sounded the alarm, urging lawmakers to protect individuals from the growing threats of location tracking tools—tools that are increasingly being used to target and criminalize people seeking essential reproductive healthcare.
The good news? Lawmakers in California, Massachusetts, Illinois and elsewhere are stepping up, leading the way to protect privacy and ensure that healthcare access and other exercise of our rights remain safe from invasive surveillance.
Privacy on the Map: How States Are Fighting Location Surveillance
Submitted 1 week ago by Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/privacy-map-how-states-are-fighting-location-surveillance
fuzzy_feeling@programming.dev 1 week ago
sick thumbnail
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
I’m laughing real hard because I was also attracted by the thumbnail and clicked.
But – I hope others don’t follow suit and make sharing content look like time square with motion everywhere.