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Easy to track visits to abortion clinics

mercredi 11 mai 2022 à 11:48

In the surveillance society, data brokers will make it easy for repressive state governments to find who has gone to an abortion clinic in another state.

Payment applications will also be used to try to find people to prosecute.

When you go to an appointment related in any way to an abortion, don't take any digital devices with you, unless it's a laptop running GNU/Linux that won't connect to the internet except when you tell it to.

And don't use a digital device to pay with. Pay in cash, for the abortion or pills, and all activities related to traveling to get there. That way, you don't need to give your real name and address.

This is one especially vicious aspect of the general injustice of widespread surveillance and tracking. It leads to many sorts of repression, so we need to reject it.