For little more than $160, SafeGraph is peddling the private data of people who go to abortion clinics, VICE reports.
a location data firm is selling the private information of people visiting abortion-providing clinics, including Planned Parenthood facilities., the data company at the center of the report, not only obtains the location people visiting the clinics came from, but how long they stayed there—a
nd even more disturbingly, where they went after leaving. Despite the fact that it’s undoubtedly a breach of privacy, the company considers Planned Parenthood a “brand,” meaning it can legally track its data,To aid in the investigation, Motherboard purchased a week of location data from SafeGraph for just over $160 last month.
“It’s bonkers dangerous to have abortion clinics and then let someone buy the census tracks where people are coming from to visit that abortion clinic,” Zach Edwards, a cybersecurity researcher told Motherboard. “This is how you dox someone traveling across state lines for abortions—how you dox clinics providing this service.”
How does SafeGraph do it? App developers install code called software development kits into apps as unassuming as the weather app and, in exchange for payment, send users’ location data—in many cases, unknowingly—to companies like SafeGraph.
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