Is This a Crisis Center?

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One of these crisis centers is not a proabortion place, right? It's not a proabotionano. A lot of them disguise themselves as abortion clinics but the're basically there to dissuade people from being prochoise. Usually, they're usually christian ad so these crisis centrs, one of them literally said, "Go fencing," which is what it's the terminology for targeting within a specific area. And i'm like, this is coming from a goddamn, like, christian marketing firm that was targeting pregnant women. So if what we're doing is illegal, then the industry is illegal.

Paris Marx is joined by Shoshana Wodinsky to discuss how the digital infrastructure that companies have built out over the past couple decades to track everything we do in order to serve us ads places us at risk, and how that’s come into focus since the overturning of abortion rights in Roe v Wade in the United States.

Shoshana Wodinsky is a privacy reporter at Gizmodo. Follow Shoshana on Twitter at @swodinsky.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

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Also mentioned in this episode:

Shoshana wrote about getting an abortion in the age of surveillance and why every company is becoming an ad network. With her colleagues at Gizmodo, she also wrote about how Facebook perpetuated climate denial and killed news feed changes that would anger conservatives.
Anti-abortion groups targeted ads at people who had visited abortion clinics.
Data brokers have been selling data on people who visit abortion clinics, including Planned Parenthood.

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