Whatever your views about abortion, this is a moment to reflect on what we have given up to the hungry maw of America’s unfettered data collection economy.

It is almost impossible to be truly anonymous in modern American life. There is so much digital information out there about who we are, where we go, what we buy and what we’re interested in that we can’t possibly control it all. This data is mostly used for more efficiently marketing shoes or doughnuts, but it rarely stops there.

And now, we’re seeing what happens when 21st-century digital intrusion collides with people who are worried all that information could be used against them in ways they never imagined.

Read more:

Ovide, S. (2022, June 29). Our Data Is a Curse, With or Without Roe. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/29/technology/abortion-data-privacy.html