{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F52370584-bf01-43e6-9866-7eccc4a66f4f","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Roe v. Wade: How the cops can use your data","description":"On June 24, that Constitutional right to choose to have an abortion was removed by the Supreme Court, and immediately, this legal story became one of data privacy. Today, countless individuals ask themselves: What surrounding activity is allowed?\nShould Google be used to find abortion providers out of state? Can people write on Facebook or Instagram that they will pay for people to travel to their own states, where abortion is protected? Should people continue texting friends about their thoughts on abortion? Should they continue to use a period-tracking app? Should they switch to a different app that is now promising to technologically protect their data from legal requests? Should they clamp down on all their data? What should they do?\nOn this episode of the Lock and Code podcast with host David Ruiz, we speak with two experts on this intersection of data privacy and legal turmoil\u2014Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney Saira Hussain and senior staff technologist Cooper Quintin.\nAs Quintin explains in the podcast, while much of the focus has recently been on the use of period-tracking apps, there are so many other forms of data out there that people should protect:\n\"Period-tracking apps aren\u2019t the only apps that are problematic. The fact is that the majority of apps are harvesting data about you. Location data, data that you put into the apps, personal data. And that data is being fed to data brokers, to people who sell location data, to advertisers, to analytics companies, and we\u2019re building these giant warehouses of data that could eventually be trawled through by law enforcement for dragnet searches.\"\nBy spotlighting how benign data points\u2014including shopping habits and locations\u2014have already been used to reveal pregnancies and miscarriages and to potentially identify abortion-seekers, our guests explain what data could now be of interest to law enforcement, and how people at home can keep their decisions private and secure.\nShow notes and credits:\nIntro Music: \u201cSCP-x5x (Outer Thoughts)\u201d by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)\nLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License\nhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/\nOutro Music: \u201cGood God\u201d by Wowa (unminus.com)","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/3f8e4f32-f629-42d6-a545-641684e2670c/lock-and-code-logo-2021-ar2rs.jpg"}