{"id":8077,"date":"2022-06-10T21:32:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T21:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8077"},"modified":"2022-06-10T21:32:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T21:32:30","slug":"what-police-could-find-out-about-your-illegal-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8077","title":{"rendered":"What police could find out about your illegal abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“But there\u2019s no gray area when it comes to evidence law enforcement can get about you specifically if they have reason to believe you\u2019ve committed a crime. To give a recent example: Many cases against alleged January 6 insurrectionists were built on data<\/a> the FBI got from Google and social media. In some cases, this included the suspect\u2019s movements to and from their homes as well as within the Capitol building. It also included the contents of their emails, web searches, websites visited, and YouTube videos watched. You might think the police having such a large data trail to follow is a good thing when it\u2019s used against people whose actions you disagree with. You might not feel the same way if it\u2019s used against people whose actions you support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That means that in places where abortion is illegal \u2014 assuming such a thing does happen \u2014 there won\u2019t be much a company like Google can do if police have a warrant for data that could be evidence of a crime. There\u2019s also the possibility that people pretending to be the police could obtain data, too. As Bloomberg recently reported<\/a>, it has happened before. That\u2019s why privacy and civil rights advocates say the less data those companies are forced to give to law enforcement, the better. Laws that minimize the amount of data collected, that restrict what other parties can do with that data, and that allow consumers to delete their data would go a long way here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s also the data that the police (and any other especially motivated private citizens) can buy. Data brokers, it turns out, make for a nice workaround to the Fourth Amendment. Law enforcement can simply buy data it would otherwise have to get a court order for, which it may then use to help in its investigations.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Consumer privacy laws would go a long way toward reducing what data is out there and available for anyone to access in the first place.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/23059057\/privacy-abortion-phone-data-roe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“But there\u2019s no gray area when it comes to evidence law enforcement can get about you specifically if they have reason to believe you\u2019ve committed a crime. To give a recent example: Many cases against alleged January 6 insurrectionists were built on data the FBI got from Google and social media. In some cases, this included the suspect\u2019s movements to and from their homes as well as within the Capitol building. It also included the contents of their emails, web searches, websites visited, and YouTube videos watched. You might think the police having such a large data trail to follow is a good thing when it\u2019s used against people whose actions you disagree with. You might not feel the same way if it\u2019s used against people whose actions you support.<\/p>\n

That means that in places where abortion is illegal \u2014 assuming such a thing does happen \u2014 there won\u2019t be much a company like Google can do if police have a warrant for data that could be evidence of a crime. There\u2019s also the possibility that people pretending to be the police could obtain data, too. As Bloomberg recently reported, it has happened before. That\u2019s why privacy and civil rights advocates say the less data those companies are forced to give to law enforcement, the better. Laws that minimize the amount of data collected, that restrict what other parties can do with that data, and that allow consumers to delete their data would go a long way here.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also the data that the police (and any other especially motivated private citizens) can buy. Data brokers, it turns out, make for a nice workaround to the Fourth Amendment. Law enforcement can simply buy data it would otherwise have to get a court order for, which it may then use to help in its investigations.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Consumer privacy laws would go a long way toward reducing what data is out there and available for anyone to access in the first place.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[521,280,285],"class_list":["post-8077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-abortion","tag-criminal-justice","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8078,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077\/revisions\/8078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}