We Want Texans to Know Their Rights: Surveillance Threatens Abortion Care
I discuss how Mayday Health is using billboards in Texas to warn pregnant individuals about state surveillance. After a sheriff used 83,000 cameras to track a woman seeking an abortion, we realized digital privacy is critical for reproductive freedom. Our campaign bypasses online censorship to inform people about their rights and options while emphasizing that privacy tools are essential for accessing safe healthcare.
Those two movements are inextricably linked. The anti-abortion movement is using every tool in their toolbox to prevent people from getting the healthcare access they need, whether that's surveilling people online or closing down brick-and-mortar clinics.
- pton_xd
"Last May, EFF reported that a sheriff’s office in Texas searched data from more than 83,000 automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to track down a woman suspected of self-managing an abortion."
These people really have nothing better to do?
- belZaah
We had a lady down here in Estonia working for police. She used their extensive databases for non-work related reasons and got, very publicly, fired. She decided to appeal and lost. Through all levels of court up to the EU one. So for years, there would be a newspaper headline “remember that person who invaded your privacy? Still guilty”. Could not wish for a more impactful public execution.
- Trasmatta
It's no longer safe to even use a period tracking app in many US states now. The women I know are all cautioning each other to go back to pen and paper, and ditch anything app based.
- belviewreview
One reason the government surveillance is important is I've read there is a growing movement among the right-to-lifers to hold women who abort criminally liable.
- throwawalien
wild that it took abortion for people to notice. the same cameras have been feeding ICE lookups across 5,000+ towns, quietly, for the last couple years