Data company sold visitor location data for 600 abortion clinics to pro-life group, senator says

therecord.media Broker sold Planned Parenthood visitor location data to pro-life group, senator says

The Veritas Society obtained visitor data for 600 clinics nationwide from the data broker Near Intelligence and used it for a targeted advertising campaign, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) said.

Data company sold visitor location data for 600 abortion clinics to pro-life group, senator says::undefined

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USA: Firma sprzedała dane o lokalizacji odwiedzających 600 klinik aborcyjnych grupie pro-life

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This could be seen as a life-endangering move, and the data company should be held reliable, not just for this act, but also for any problems their victims have to endure.
Holy crap that's dark. Now I have even less sympathy for the companies losing revenue from chrome removing third party cookies
- You don't need cookies for this kind of targeting....
  
  How do they get the ads to appear on the social media pages of these very specific people? Logistically I’m not sure how that works.
Now, people needing an abortion also need a burner paid for winth cash. Fantastic.

This is exactly why we need privacy laws.
- I’m male, and my voice is pretty unmistakeable so I can’t very well man the hotlines for agencies helping women find ways to get out of shitty states and have abortions.
  
  I’d happily run all over the tri-state acquiring burners by the bunch though, for this exact use case.
  
  Sounds like a plan. I'll remember this. Thanks.
thanks for reminding me why I use an ad blocker (and why I hate pro-life fuckers)
- Your ad blocker doesn't block location data if your mobile carrier is selling it to these brokers (and they almost certainly are).
  
  It's why there's been such an effort to move to apps instead of webpages that can do the same thing. More data collection and notifications.
Veritas

There's a fucking surprise. Pond scum.
I'm not even surprised any more. I take a bold guess at what absolutely hideous shit I'll read today and I'm still always surprised.
Senator says::undefined

OMG! He's a broken javascript. AI has gone too far!
This shit happened in 2022 too. Nothing has changed. There needs to be more outcry.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vzjb/location-data-abortion-clinics-safegraph-planned-parenthood

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