Favorite Texas State Representative Steve Toth recently introduced a bill that targets the most viable form of safe and effective abortion access today—medication abortion. House Bill (HB) 2690 seeks to prevent the sale and distribution of abortion pills like Mifepristone and misoprostol, but it doesn’t stop there. By restricting access to certain information online, the…
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EFF Backs California Bill to Protect People Seeking Abortion and Gender-Affirming Care from Dragnet Digital Surveillance
Favorite EFF proudly joins ACLU California Action and If/When/How to co-sponsor new California legislation to protect people seeking abortion and gender-affirming care from dragnet-style digital surveillance. A coalition of more than 25 reproductive justice, civil liberties, and privacy groups are supporting the bill at introduction. Support A.B. 793 Stop All Digital Dragnet Surveillance of Vulnerable…
California Leads on Reproductive and Trans Health Data Privacy
Favorite In the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, anti-choice sheriffs and bounty hunters will try to investigate and punish abortion seekers based on their internet browsing, private messaging, and phone app location data. We can expect similar tactics from state officials who claim that parents who allow their transgender youth to receive gender-affirming…
Automated License Plate Readers Threaten Abortion Access. Here's How Policymakers Can Mitigate the Risk
Favorite Over the last decade, a vast number of law enforcement agencies around the country have adopted a mass surveillance technology that uses cameras to track the vehicles of every driver on the road, with little thought or respect given to the ways this technology might be abused. Now, in the wake of the U.S.…
EFF to California Governor: Protect Abortion Data Privacy
Favorite In the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, anti-choice sheriffs and bounty hunters will try to investigate and punish abortion seekers based on their internet browsing, private messaging, and phone app location data. Legislators must act now to protect this personal data. Reproductive justice requires data privacy. That’s why EFF urges California Governor…
Victory! South Carolina Will Not Advance Bill That Banned Speaking About Abortions Online
Favorite Since the U.S. Supreme Court overruled a half century of precedent supporting the constitutional right to abortion access, numerous states have moved towards making abortion illegal and restricting additional reproductive health services. In South Carolina, Republican state Senators Richard Cash, Rex F. Rice and Daniel B. Verdin III introduced Senate Bill 1373 seeking to…
Nonprofit Websites Are Full of Trackers. That Should Change.
Favorite Jump straight to the Online Privacy for Nonprofits Guide to Better Practices Today, the vast majority of websites and emails that you encounter contain some form of tracking. Third-party cookies let advertisers follow you around the web; tracking pixels in emails confirm whether you’ve opened them; tracking links ensure websites know what you click; some…
How California Reproductive Health Workers Can Protect Information They Submit to the Government
Favorite With the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs reversing long-standing rights to abortion access, workers and volunteers for reproductive health clinics must reevaluate the risks they face (also known as a threat model) and take steps to safeguard their personal information–including information they have submitted to the government. In 2020, nearly 17% of abortions…
Abortion Information Is Coming Down Across Social Media. What Is Happening and What Next.
Favorite Reports have surfaced about the removal of information about abortion from social media. Unfortunately, none of it is unprecedented. Platforms like Facebook and Instagram have long maintained broad and vague community standards that allows them to remove content with little recourse. What Is Happening As reported by Vice and followed up on by Wired,…
Congress Probes How Location Data Brokers Threaten Reproductive Privacy
Favorite Data brokers harvest location information from our phone apps, then sell access to the highest bidder, including government. This is a way sheriffs and bounty hunters in anti-abortion states may try to identify and punish people seeking and providing abortion. Some good news: three members of Congress are investigating this problem, and have sent…