Denver company says it will stop selling data showing visits to abortion clinics

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A Denver-based data broker said it will stop selling information on visits to abortion clinics following a report from Vice about how easy it was to access the information and concerns about how it may be used.

A Denver-based data broker said Tuesday it will stop selling information on visits to abortion clinics, including Planned Parenthood facilities, following a report from Vice about how easy it was to access the information and concerns about how it may be used.a U.S. Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade,

the 1973 ruling that legalized abortions nationwide, leaked and was reported by Politico earlier this week. There is a concern that information could be used by “anti-abortion vigilantes” to harass or target people seeking and providing abortions. The data gathered by the company, SafeGraph, showed where people traveled to a clinic based on their census block,

 

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Where are HIPPA protections?

Does it not bother anyone that they were selling this information to begin with?🙄

'Data brokers' should not be a thing.

All these data brokers need to be regulated like the EU does. They have no guiding principle except making money. Our business is our business. Maybe a requirement to be a data broker should be an accounting of your daily activities on the evening news.

😂😂😂 why was it being sold to begin with? How much they get for fetuses and who buys them? Its known they are sold already. There was a baby factory discovered in ukraine nobody is talking about. They involved somehow?

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