A stark example of how digital footprints will be utilized in a post-Roe America

The article is from Aug 10, 2022 but remains relevant

  • Sorchist@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The takeaway from this article, IMHO, isn’t “Facebook did something terrible” so much as “when you live in a world where the government is terrible, services which compromise your privacy can be exploited against you.” It no longer becomes a matter of “advertisers have access to my intimate details” but “people with the power to jail me unjustly have access to my intimate details.”

    I mean, it’s reprehensible for Facebook to have done that, but we kind of never expected them to be the good guys. It’s more “the compromise of our basic privacy is more dangerous than you might have thought when it was just being used to advertise to us.”