Doxxing and Abortion

I just watched another baby died in the drainage, now in outskirt Jakarta. I really believe (because case of rape, free sex actually very high in Indonesia) percentage of abortion in Indonesia maybe 5-6x than latest data by Guttmacher Institute (37/1000). The another problem in (specifically) Indonesia also “revenge-porn”, look alike doxxing strategy and continued with blackmailing.

Rest in peace, sweet baby. Your parent really evil because you died in the drainage.

The other problem after “weird, lethargy” sex party or something else like this maybe “taboo” in development countries and or third world. But even abortion isn’t taboo anymore in the West, the doxxing problem surge again after leak-opinion from SCOTUS Alito who decided overturned Roe v Wade.

A woman's digital footprint risks becoming a dangerous weapon in the escalating U.S. abortion wars, with experts urging women in the crossfire to leave less of a trace if Roe v. Wade falls.

Be it location data, social media posts or search histories - online records will carry greater risk if women lose their constitutional right to an abortion, the researchers say.

"The apps you use, your internet search history and so on - information about you is being collected by third parties all the time," said Corynne McSherry, legal director at the EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group.

More than half of U.S. states are poised to swiftly ban abortion if Roe v. Wade is overturned when the court issues its eventual ruling, expected by the end of June, says (still from) Guttmacher Institute.

The risks thereafter are manifold.

Anti-abortion groups could use data to target pregnant women with ads as they walk into health clinics to make hard choices.

Private companies could sell a pregnant woman's location data - valuable insight given an ever-increasing number of U.S. states are taking steps to ban or restrict abortion access.

There are already examples of women who have faced prosecution over pregnancy-related issues that relied, in part, on their digital footprint.

In 2018, a grand jury indicted Mississippi's Latice Fisher for second-degree murder after she experienced a pregnancy loss, in a case that turned in part on her web search history.

Conti-Cook, who highlighted the case in a recent law review article, said the end of Roe v. Wade could open the door for "surveillance capitalism" to expand even further in vast swathes of the United States.

More than 500 abortion restrictions have already been introduced in U.S. state legislatures in 2022 alone, still (again) according Guttmacher Institute.

"The potential is very, very dangerous," Conti-Cook told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "If you have a hammer, everything is a nail."

McSherry predicted a prolonged battle between states and law enforcement agencies with different stances on abortion, where digital trails could become crucial evidence.

Missouri lawmakers, for example, had pushed legislation that would allow private citizens to sue to prevent a person from assisting someone else to leave the state for an abortion.

"Legally, I think it is going to be a complete mess (over) the next several years," McSherry said. "We will have different states with different rules and we'll be fighting about which rules apply to whom, and how, for many years."

World over, law enforcement agencies and private data brokers are tracking social media use, location data, online purchases and search histories to map and profile people.

While law enforcement agencies sometimes need a warrant to access such data themselves, it is often offered for sale on the open market by data brokers and ad platforms.

Anti-abortion groups are not shy about using major tech platforms to track women entering abortion clinics and target them with anti-choice messages and advertisements.

Maura Healey, the state's attorney general since 2015 who is now running for governor, said then that the case highlighted how geo-fencing technology could be used to harass citizens and interfere with their privacy.

The potential reversal of Roe v. Wade would "fundamentally change so many different aspects of life," Healey said in a statement to the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

"Which makes it vital to defend the rights of patients and providers in Massachusetts and across the country," she said.

Digital rights groups are advising people seeking abortions to use Virtual Private Networks, turn off location sharing, and use encrypted messaging applications.

Be it the church or the state, Conti-Cook cited a long history of powerful forces seeking control over a pregnant body.

"There's just very modern tools with which they can enforce it in a way that they have never been able to enforce it before," she said.