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This seems rife for catastrophic unintended consequences. Even given this one absurdly narrow use case: > When abortion is illegal, researching reproductive he
by throwaway894345 4y ago
This seems rife for catastrophic unintended consequences. Even given this one absurdly narrow use case:
> When abortion is illegal, researching reproductive health care online, updating a period-tracking app, or bringing a phone to the doctor’s office all could be used to track and prosecute women across the U.S. It amounts to uterus surveillance
The pro-abortion folks could use this to identify where abortion services are in the highest demand, so limiting access to the data isn't an unmitigated good (assuming you think abortions are "good").
Moreover, healthcare researchers buy a whole bunch of data from these brokerages--how are we supposed to advance healthcare research without access to good data (at least it seems from reading this article that this bill would prohibit this sort of access)? I'm all for making it harder for advertisers to track people, but I'm not willing to trade off prospective treatments and cures for serious diseases. There has to be a more selective approach.