Surveillance: Anti-choice groups use cell phone ad tech to target women during clinic visits.

[osewalrus]

Fascinating article as to how anti-abortion groups use the same technology used by the private sector to sell you stuff to determine women "likely to have abortions" and then target them with texts and online ads when they are in the geographic area of an abortion clinic.
https://rewire.news/article/2016/05/25/anti-choice-groups-deploy-smartphone-surveillance-target-abortion-minded-women-clinic-visits/ 

Worth noting how the accumulation of "non-sensitive" data reveals the most sensitive data. Also that "anonymization" that works for large scale campaigns can be easily broken for "micro" campaigns.

I should add that back in 2016, when I was arguing for strong privacy rules at the FCC (ultimately repealed by Congress, alas), I kept being asked what harm there would be given that the business model was advertising. I kept saying that the idea that the business model is going to be static and no one is going to figure out how to use this information in other ways was foolish.

Feeling the Cassandrefreude.

Comments

[magid]

This is my surprised face.

Oh, wait.

::sigh::

[vettecat]

Wow, that's really disturbing. Wish they had listened to you.