Are We Going to Do the Right Thing?

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The internet needs targeted as to survive, at least right now, unless we dismantle it and start afresh. There are people inside these massive companies that li hafe ther resources to try to do the right thing,. But doing the right thing will never be as profitable as maintaining the status quo. I think there's been a lot of great reporting on personal responsibility when it comes to tracking your periods. i'm working on a story about how you can track your period with an app called 'periods for women' You don't necessarily have to delete these aps. It's really tough to say, this ap is good and this ap isn't. If cops want that data, they're

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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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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