Surveillance data and technology are being exploited to stoke fear and prevent abortions in countries including the United States, China, Hungary and Poland.
Period tracking apps, car licence plate data and pregnancy registers are the latest tools activists warn are being harnessed to stop women using legal or geographic loopholes for terminations. All four countries have reversed abortion rights over the past two years.
Period tracking apps have come under scrutiny after a number of platforms shared user data with third parties, experts say. In states where abortion is a crime, prosecutors can request information collected by these apps when building a case against someone.
Source: There’s a new surveillance state – and women are the target
I presume there will also be apps for tracking men, and their car licence plates as they merrily cruise bars and socialise with women, leading to possible impregnation