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Anti-abortion group accused of electronically intercepting patients’ exchanges with clinic
A Massachusetts reproductive healthcare clinic said in court filings that the nearby office of an anti-abortion group appeared to be intercepting messages to patients and then contacting them with the goal of redirecting them away from the clinic's services.
Two minutes after she uploaded her insurance information to finalize the appointment, a representative from a nearby “pregnancy crisis center” allegedly called the woman and, purporting to be the clinic, told her she needed to come in for an ultrasound prior to obtaining the medication. “If a data broker could track Americans’ cell phones to help extremists target misinformation to people at hundreds of Planned Parenthood locations across the United States, a right-wing prosecutor could use that same information to put women in jail,” Wyden said in a statement at the time. The clinic’s cloud-based scheduling platform and health care management system are the “most likely points through which AWHC may have accessed Four Women patient information,” according to a September affidavit submitted by a cybersecurity incident responder from the company Rapid7.
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