A critical component of Roe v. Wade is its determination of the right to privacy —but comprehensive digital privacy is challenging to achieve in an age of widespread user tracking, corporate data retention, and location tracking.
offer detailed guides for steps you can take to protect your digital privacy while researching and seeking an abortion or related services. When it comes to a potential dismantling of, though, it remains to be seen how far criminalization will extend in different states and what exactly the landscape will look like. In the meantime, researchers and reproductive health experts note that understanding a few basic concepts could go a long way later.
“If you know that you’re doing something that is risky, just be cautious about how you talk about it on the internet—or don't talk about it on the internet at all,” says Kat Green, managing director of Abortion Access Front.
Across the board, abortion access proponents recommend talking about anything that might carry risk on an end-to-end encrypted messaging app like Signal with the disappearing/auto-deleting feature turned on so your messages don't hang around on your device or that of the person you're talking to. Apps like Signal also offer end-to-end encrypted calling and even video chat to keep snoops off your calls .
While it may be increasingly important for people in the US to consciously consider what they're posting when it comes to their own abortions or those of loved ones, Hayley McMahon, an independent public health researcher who studies abortion access, notes that the goal of this advice is not to chill speech, but to keep people safe.
“I don’t ever want to tell someone they shouldn’t talk about their experience or they can’t talk about their experience, because there’s tons of power in abortion storytelling,” McMahon says. “But I think people need to have all of the information and an understanding of the risks, and then they can make choices about what to say where.”Researchers emphasize, too, that people in the US should know and feel secure in their rights when it comes to dealing with law enforcement.
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