Safegraph follows people into abortion clinics and then sells the data

And then they lie about it.

Cory Doctorow
7 min readMay 7, 2022

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A Planned Parenthood office; the looming head of Pinocchio enters the frame from the top left corner; Pinocchio’s eyes have been replaced with the glowing red eyes of HAL9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. The blue sky is filled with tesselated versions of the SafeGraph logo, a collection of ball-and-stick elements. Image: Paul Sableman (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/pasa/6149265334 CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.or

As theocrats in robes, appointed by presidents who lost their elections, make ready to impose forced birth on half of America, it’s right to worry that police in thrall to “the party of small government” will spy on, hunt down, and punish people who get abortions (or miscarry).

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