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Abortion advocates have been raising the alarm about the potential danger of health apps tracking women’s menstrual cycles for years<\/a>, but the hysteria ramped up into overdrive when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade<\/em>. The theory is that data from the apps will be tracked, and authorities will be able to use that data to determine which women had illegal abortions. Leaving aside the fact that this is a myth<\/a>, it’s incredibly interesting to know exactly who<\/em> is sharing data about abortion on social media.<\/p>\n

Abortion is still legal in a majority of the states across the nation, and Planned Parenthood \u2014 the nation’s largest abortion chain \u2014 is continuing to commit abortions. Many of the procedures are scheduled online, and according to the Washington Post<\/a>, this presents a problem. Why? Because Planned Parenthood’s website allows data to be shared with other companies.<\/em><\/p>\n

“An investigation by Lockdown Privacy, the maker of an app that blocks online tracking, found that Planned Parenthood\u2019s web scheduler can share information with a variety of third parties, including Google, Facebook, TikTok and Hotjar, a tracking tool that says it helps companies understand how customers behave,” Washington Post reporter Tatum Hunter wrote. “These outside companies receive data including IP addresses, approximate Zip codes and service selections, which privacy experts worry could be valuable to state governments looking to prosecute abortions.”<\/p>\n

Johnny Lin, the founder of Lockdown Privacy, told the Post he couldn’t believe what he found.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was absolutely shocking,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve analyzed and reviewed the tracking behaviors of hundreds of apps and websites, and it\u2019s rare to see this degree of carelessness with sensitive health data.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Is private medical information really safe at Planned Parenthood?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Lauren Kokum did respond to the allegations, but only to defend them by saying that data-sharing is needed for marketing purposes. \u201cMarketing is a necessary part of Planned Parenthood\u2019s work to reach people who are seeking sexual and reproductive health care, education, and information,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Yet after the Post published its findings, Planned Parenthood changed its tune.<\/p>\n

\u201cOut of an abundance of caution, Planned Parenthood will suspend marketing pixels on webpages related to abortion search, and will be engaging with Meta\/Facebook and other technology companies about how their policies can better protect people seeking abortion care,” said Diana Contreras, chief health-care officer for Planned Parenthood Federation of America.<\/p>\n

Yet Cooper Quintin, senior staff technologist at the privacy advocacy organization Electronic Frontier Foundation, told the Post that this never should have happened to begin with.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really irresponsible of Planned Parenthood to be creating more data about the visitors to the website and more trails of evidence about the people that are seeking their services,\u201d he said. \u201cPlanned Parenthood needs to \u2014 right now, right this second \u2014 minimize the amount of data that they are sharing with any outside party and minimize the amount of data that they are keeping.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even Andy Stone, a spokesman for Meta, the company that owns Facebook, criticized the abortion giant. \u201cAdvertisers should not send sensitive information about people through our business tools,\u201d he said. \u201cDoing so is against our policies and we educate advertisers on properly setting up business tools to prevent this from occurring. When businesses do this, our filtering mechanism is designed to prevent potentially sensitive data it detects from entering our ads system. Based on our review, that happened here.\u201d<\/p>\n

So though many abortion advocates are terrified of pro-life activists leaking their private health data, it’s actually the abortion industry itself which seems unconcerned about women’s safety or privacy.<\/p>\n

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