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Truthout: Data Broker Sold Data From 600 Planned Parenthood Visits to Anti-Abortion Group
February 15, 2024
“The continued sale of our most sensitive information to and by shady data brokers not only fuels harmful surveillance advertising systems, but enables government agencies — from local police departments to state attorneys general to the FBI — to sidestep the Fourth Amendment,” Electronic Privacy Information Center counsel Sara Geoghegan said in a statement. “We urgently need to rein in data brokers and enact comprehensive privacy rules to protect us from these grave harms in the post-Roe era we live in.”
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