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Check your VPN, abortion seekers. New 'Vagina Privacy Network' aims to keep data safe | Advocates warn messages, search history, location data and even period trackers can be too easily accessed by police, anti-abortion groups and others.
Advocates warn messages, search history, location data and even period trackers can be too easily accessed by police, anti-abortion groups and others.
Norfolk police used a search warrant to gain access to Facebook messages between the pair, which allowed investigators to charge Jessica Burgess with illegally providing an abortion after 20 weeks, the outlet reported. While law enforcement has the most sophisticated tools for extracting and interpreting our personal data, Conti-Cook said this kind of information can also be accessed by other third parties, noting that reproductive health care providers have increasingly been the target of online harassment and doxxing. Meanwhile, several states including Washington, Nevada, Connecticut, New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Jersey and California have recently passed or introduced legislation designed to protect sensitive health information, according to Amie Stepanovich, vice president for U.S. policy at The Future of Privacy Forum.
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