The way that these ad networks and tracking functions have been built out because it's so profitable for these companies to put together these profiles on us. Weve found ourselves in this position where whatever we do, you know, it's not just going on facebook or or going on google to to have data produced about us that these companies can see. You see this with a crisis pregnancy centrs,. which is something bhout. Like, even before all of thus, like, when i first started reporting on this stuff years ago, i was fascinated by them.
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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