Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to abolish federal abortion rights by overturning Roe v. Wade, experts have raised concerns about the type of personal data that’s collected within certain reproductive health apps.
The White House has also expressed its concerns over such reproductive health apps. “I think people should be really careful about that,” Jen Klein, the director of the White House's Gender Policy Council, told reporters on July 8. That was the day President Biden signed an executive order calling on the Federal Trade Commission to consider steps to protect the privacy of consumers when seeking reproductive health care.
The other thing that is potentially even more dangerous is all of the data that's being collected about you from the apps on your phone, by your phone itself and not just collected, but often shared without your real knowledge. You may have signed a terms of use, but everyone knows that no one reads those. It might be shared widely, without your knowledge. Usually, the folks that will share it will say it's “anonymized.
Another way of thinking about this is that your information might be sought, not because anyone's pursuing data directly, but rather, they're pursuing the provider or someone who helped. The statutes do go after providers. Many of the ones that are proposed talk about aiding and abetting . And the reason they do that is because they realize politically, it may be not as palatable right now to go after the women directly, so you go after everybody else.
There are some things though, that you can do. One of the key things is to really find out. Are they collecting data on you? Where's it going to be? There are apps that you can find where you could just, it's on your phone. The data is collected, but it stays on your phone, within your control, for you. That's not perfect. You can still face or warrant or whatever, but it still helps. Once your information is in the hands of a third party, you don't control it anymore.
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