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I do think that people are really underestimating the risk in a post-Roe world that ad tech poses to women. It isn't just Law Enforcement has an easier time accessing your phone than your home and it isn't just data brokers. States now have private-citizen bounties, remember?Permalink On twitter.com
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If I was a piece of shit and good at ad targeting or just had a bunch of buyer accounts I could say... arbitrage my way to a $10k bounty in Texas at scale. This doesn't even get into how cops could use targeting data without ever writing a warrant. nytimes.com/2021/09/10/us/politics/texas-abortion-law-facts.htmlPermalink On twitter.com
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An activist or LEO ad buyer who *suspects* a person of having an abortion could weave together targeting, user IDs, app & web data to build a supporting case. They could buy data pretty cheap OR it could mean attempting to target a user & de-anonymize. nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html?ref=oembedPermalink On twitter.com
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Once you have a de-anonymized ad ID, it opens all sorts of nasty opportunities for anti-choice action. You could leverage segments to find out which you can successfully target the user with. robinberjon/1521934732682010633Permalink On twitter.com
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You can see if you could successfully target a user using a particular apps data that tells you something about if they are currently or actively having regular periods. You could cross reference user data with various geo data sources. You could check to target installed apps.Permalink On twitter.com
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Once you either suspect a user OR have geo data about the user (very possible - jezebel.com/a-data-firm-is-tracking-people-who-visit-abortion-clini-1848875722 ) it becomes very easy to find intersections with other data through brokers or active targeting.Permalink On twitter.com
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So maybe a dragnet is unlikely; but it is easy to see how anti-choice sh*tlord LEOs or anti-choice activists might buy geo data and then use other data or targeting (like nytimes.com/2022/01/11/style/facebook-womens-sexual-health-advertising.html ) to try and harvest a whole host of potential targets for prosecution.Permalink On twitter.com
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And in a state where there is a bounty on abortions like Texas, the relatively low cost of acquiring this data and running targeting to build your case means that for an unscrupulous individual or anti-choicer this could be a way to arbitrage ads for profit.Permalink On twitter.com
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The targeting is clearly possible (just because ad buyers are bad at it, doesn't mean the anti-choice forces are). And once you have de-anonymized a user or set of users who get this type of targeting the privacy violation risks are very high. publictorsten/1522252442951426048Permalink On twitter.com
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And this doesn't even get into the possibility of your data being hacked and someone buying that! A thing that law enforcement definitely does! vice.com/en/article/3azvey/police-buying-hacked-data-spycloudPermalink On twitter.com
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There is a *reason* that privacy rights are so tied up with the pro-choice cause and questions of abortion. And we should expect that anything that threatens privacy will intrinsically threaten your right to choose and your bodily autonomy. Chronotope/1521460329913405441Permalink On twitter.com
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So *any* system that aims to track you and associate that tracking to information about your body and therefore--to some extent--violate your bodily integrity will inevitably become a tool of those who wish to deny you bodily autonomy & the right to choose Chronotope/1522189951609233409Permalink On twitter.com
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In places like Texas the threat is even worse because now not only is all that the case, but there are *market forces* that *incentivize* the use of *cheap ad targeting and targeting data* as part of anti-choice efforts. All people who can get an abortion are threatened by this.Permalink On twitter.com
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But the right to privacy and the right to bodily autonomy are inexorably linked. The threat does not end at abortion. It includes anyone who would like to take control of their body...Permalink On twitter.com
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...and soon after that anyone who would like to maintain their ability to choose what they want to do in their own home. Or anyone who would like to choose something to do w/their lives other than what those in power would want for them. Unlimited user-targeting threatens it allPermalink On twitter.com
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Literally the only thing that has lessened this threat to us as citizens has been that the government and people in power have not made most of what you choose to do to yourself or in your home illegal... but that appears to be something we can no longer trust will continue...Permalink On twitter.com
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So now it is a terrible cost for users of the internet. It is on those under threat to stop using things that they may like, enjoy, or rely on just to avoid potential prosecution. That's not how this should work. That's not how any of this should work. youtube.com/watch?v=fCUTX1jurJ4Permalink On twitter.com
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A world in which some individuals must, to preserve their autonomy, make choices that give them less access to our digital world is *not just*. Additional sources: context.center/topics/law-enforcement-and-data/Permalink On twitter.com
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This is a good point. $10k can spread around. dmarti/1522256230479061014Permalink On twitter.com
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Also, I can't edit tweets but please note my correction to the top of the thread, I used "women", but I meant "people who might choose abortions". Notably: Trans people are, if you missed my earlier implication, very much threatened by the direction this is going as well.Permalink On twitter.com
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Additional pieces that are extremely worrying on this topic now that the Supreme Court has taken its shitty action. Chronotope/1521460329913405441Permalink On twitter.com
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And another especially concerning new trend technologyreview.com/2022/05/31/1052901/anti-abortion-activists-are-collecting-the-data-theyll-need-for-prosecutions-post-roe/Permalink On twitter.com
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I have a section in my resources document on how to avoid law enforcement (and now potential civilian) tracking. Remember that both LEOs and any citizen has access to user data derived from your web & device history, if they're willing to pay. - context.center/topics/law-enforcement-and-data/#fighting-backPermalink On twitter.com
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And you might ask, how likely is it that private activists might start using data intended for ad targeting for nasty anti-choice harassment and collaboration with law enforcement? I'd say: not unlikely. gizmodo.com/a-priest-was-outed-by-his-phones-location-data-anyone-1847334277On twitter.com
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I know a lot of my followers are tech and media people. There's something you can (and should) be doing: evacide/1540359879277154304Permalink On twitter.com
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Adding this article by swodinsky to the thread, which spins out the enormous scale and extremely troubling trade in pregnancy-related data: gizmodo.com/data-brokers-selling-pregnancy-roe-v-wade-abortion-1849148426Permalink On twitter.com
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