A new report lays out existing US policing capabilities that can easily be repurposed to monitor pregnant people.
by Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy & Technology showed just how far the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has been able to expand its surveillance powers by partnering with local and state agencies and combining numerous data sources into what the researchers dubbed the “American Dragnet.”
STOP also warns that the law enforcement tactic of creating fake social media accounts to trick people into revealing their interests or intentions will easily slot into abortion investigations. “In digital security and data privacy, we always say that it’s all about how motivated your adversary is,” says Andrea Downing, founder of the nonprofit Light Collective and a security and privacy researcher focused on patient populations and social media. “And in this case, so much of our data as individuals is already out there.