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

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  • @Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    100•8 months ago

    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.

  • @doesnt_use_lemmyEnglish
    82•8 months ago

    Holy crap that’s dark. Now I have even less sympathy for the companies losing revenue from chrome removing third party cookies

        • plz1English
          17•8 months ago

          You think the forced birthers are buying this data to show ads? Oh sweet child…

          • @PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            13•8 months ago

            I mean…it is mentioned several times in the article. Do I think that’s all they’re doing? No. But I am curious how they do this one specific thing that the article mentions repeatedly.

            A pro-life political organization obtained mobile phone location data from a broker and used it to target people who had visited 600 abortion clinics across the country with advertisements, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) announced Tuesday.

            The senator began investigating the company last year, in the wake of a Wall Street Journal report revealing that the pro-life Veritas Society had used cell phone location data Near shared with online advertisers to target people visiting Wisconsin Planned Parenthood clinics with misinformation about reproductive health.

            On a webpage that has since been removed, Veritas Society revealed that in Wisconsin alone in 2020 it sent 14.3 million ads to people who visited abortion clinics across the state, Wyden said. The page said the organization “served ads to those devices across the women’s social pages, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat,” he said.

  • ɔiƚoxɘupEnglish
    55•8 months ago

    Now, people needing an abortion also need a burner paid for winth cash. Fantastic.

    This is exactly why we need privacy laws.

    • @____@infosec.pubEnglish
      9•8 months ago

      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.

  • FurblandEnglish
    37•8 months ago

    thanks for reminding me why I use an ad blocker (and why I hate pro-life fuckers)

    • plz1English
      26•8 months ago

      Your ad blocker doesn’t block location data if your mobile carrier is selling it to these brokers (and they almost certainly are).

      • @Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18•8 months ago

        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.

        • plz1English
          3•8 months ago

          That’s been the trend for more than a decade though. Some companies are more militant about it than others.

  • @Reygle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20•8 months ago

    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.

  • @Mango@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15•8 months ago

    Surely they’re just interested in advertising products popular with newly aborting mothers. /S

  • @badbytes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9•8 months ago

    Seems lawsuits are how we motivate policy. Gotta sue companies into the ground, for policy or law change.

  • @dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4•8 months ago

    Not only that, but hackers stole every single last bit of patient data from hospitals all over Ontario in Canada as well. I daresay, if you’ve had an abortion, you exist on some right wing assholes list somewhere.