"It costs just over $160 to get a week's worth of data on where people who visited Planned Parenthood came from, and where they went afterwards."

As long as spying on people is for some reason legal this will continue to happen. Phones need to ban location access for anything that doesn’t need location to function. Given we have them, App Stores need to ban apps that are spy.

Another Vice article about the same thing [0]. It seems they have discovered that location data is sold.

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vymn/cdc-tracked-phones-lo...

So it seems obvious that this is not the only questionable use location data is being put to. Businesses could buy location tracks on competitors to find out if they are having health problems or to blackmail them. Criminals could use it for blackmail. Foreign governments could use it for blackmail and to build contact networks for people of interest. People could find out which politicians attend neo-nazi meetings. Dead drops for bribery money could be discovered by journalists. Infidelities could be tracked. There are likely many many uses. Apparently the data is easily available. So misuse is likely widespread already. Much of the data is archived and could be mined for any use in the future.

Someone buy this and cross reference it with publicly available information about Republican lawmakers. I'm certain you'll find more than a few pings.

Don't worry abortion will be illegal soon.

I have always wondered if in the long run it would have been better if Lincoln actually lost the Civil war. The Blue states would be free from the conservatives.

Time to freely disseminate lists of data brokers (and their acquaintances) who sell location data of people who visit abortion clinics.

Useful listing of the scumbags responsible: https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1521581893438754817

Also - is it just me, or did this one never got to the front page despite quite some upvotes?