Skip to content

Privacy News - June 15

Facebook and anti-abortion clinics collecting data, new legislation to ban data brokers from selling location and health data, and more!

A highway sign with the word News on it

My plan for The Nexus of Privacy is to combine "news roundups" – links with short commentary – with more detailed posts like yesterday's on federal privacy legislation.

Facebook and Anti-Abortion Clinics Are Collecting Highly Sensitive Info on Would-Be Patients

Grace Oldham and Dhruv Mehrotra on Reveal (revealnews.org)

Facebook is collecting ultra-sensitive personal data about abortion seekers visiting "crisis pregnancy center" websites whether or not they're logged into their Facebook account, and enabling anti-abortion organizations to use that data as a tool to target and influence people online.  So-called "crisis pregnancy centers" are fake abortion clinics that instead attempt to convince people not to get abortions. A joint investigation by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and The Markup.

Related, from last week: Google search results for abortion services are leading users to ‘fake clinics’, new study finds, from Center for Digital Hate, reports that over 10% of searches for “abortion clinic near me” and “abortion pill” in trigger states lead to "crisis pregnancy centers" rather than real abortion clinics.

Warren, Wyden, Murray, Whitehouse, Sanders Introduce Legislation to Ban Data Brokers from Selling Americans’ Location and Health Data

on warren.senate.gov

Sen. Elizabeth Warren:

Roe v. WadeHealth and Location Data Protection Act

Joseph Cox' Sweeping Legislation Aims to Ban the Sale of Location Data on vice.com has more about the Health and Location Data Protection Act (HLDPA). Privacy scholars including Danielle Citron, Neil Richards, Woodrow Herzog, and Elizabeth Joh worked with Sen. Warren on the legislation.

How does this legislation compare with similar clauses in the bipartisan ADPPA comprehensive privacy bill?  Good question!  Once I see some analyses, I'll include them in a future newsletter.

And ...

The Impotence of the Fourth Amendment in a Post-Roe World - Jolynn Dillinger and Stephanie Pell on Lawfare (lawfareblog.com)

The End of Roe and the Threat to Free Speech Online – Ron Wyden on Slate (slate.com)

You agreed to what? Doctor check-in software harvests your health data. – Geoffrey A. Fowler on The Washington Post (washingtonpost.com)

We’re so close to getting data loyalty right – Woodrow Harzog and Neil Richards on IAPP (iapp.org)

______________

Image credit: News by Nick Youngson, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, via Pix4free

La elección de camisetas de selecciones para coleccionar mejora al comparar el uso previsto entre colección, exposición y uso diario. Para evitar errores, merece la pena revisar que la referencia del modelo corresponda a la temporada buscada.