Data company sold visitor location data for 600 abortion clinics to pro-life group, senator says

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This could be seen as a life-endangering move, and the data company should be held reliable, not just for this act, but also for any problems their victims have to endure.

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  • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They sold the data fully understanding what it could be used for. I imagine the deal brokered was by a MAGA supporter who works with this data company.

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    • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      People like that belong behind bars. They are a danger to humans.

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• doesnt_use_lemmy@lemmings.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Holy crap that’s dark. Now I have even less sympathy for the companies losing revenue from chrome removing third party cookies

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  • Copernican@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You don’t need cookies for this kind of targeting…

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    • PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How do they get the ads to appear on the social media pages of these very specific people? Logistically I’m not sure how that works.

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• Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now, people needing an abortion also need a burner paid for winth cash. Fantastic.

  This is exactly why we need privacy laws.

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  • ____@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m male, and my voice is pretty unmistakeable so I can’t very well man the hotlines for agencies helping women find ways to get out of shitty states and have abortions.

    I’d happily run all over the tri-state acquiring burners by the bunch though, for this exact use case.

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    • Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sounds like a plan. I’ll remember this. Thanks.

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  • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And a fake name, and fake everything else as well.

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    • Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Totally. It’s grim.

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• GroupNebula563@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  thanks for reminding me why I use an ad blocker

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  • plz1@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Your ad blocker doesn’t block location data if your mobile carrier is selling it to these brokers (and they almost certainly are).

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    • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s why there’s been such an effort to move to apps instead of webpages that can do the same thing. More data collection and notifications.

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• Railing5132@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Veritas

  There’s a fucking surprise. Pond scum.

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• Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not even surprised any more. I take a bold guess at what absolutely hideous shit I’ll read today and I’m still always surprised.

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• _cnt0@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  OMG! He’s a broken javascript. AI has gone too far!

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• Mango@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Surely they’re just interested in advertising products popular with newly aborting mothers. /S

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• pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This shit happened in 2022 too. Nothing has changed. There needs to be more outcry.

  vice.com/…/location-data-abortion-clinics-safegra…

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• badbytes@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Seems lawsuits are how we motivate policy. Gotta sue companies into the ground, for policy or law change.

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• dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not only that, but hackers stole every single last bit of patient data from hospitals all over Ontario in Canada as well. I daresay, if you’ve had an abortion, you exist on some right wing assholes list somewhere.

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