#cw anti-abortion

[oscillatingmadness]

Government overreach, digital warrants and their use in abortion prosecution

Long post. 4 segments. 1. Geofence warrants and their usage 2. Keyword warrants and their usage 3. The application of both in Texas vs "abortion trafficking" 4. My thoughts and why this came to mind

Geofence warrants are warrants for location data from google and several other providers for people in an area, at a given time. As far as I am aware Apple does not give this information out yet, they're easily the best large mobile and location data provider in terms of location privacy.

One usage of this is is theft. If someone had a theft occur from their house while they were at work, a geofence warrant could go out for say, a 3 block radius for the 8h workday the break-in occurred.

Problem: if the thieves didn't carry their phones and used an old car maybe the person riding a bike 2 blocks away becomes the primary suspect because they're the only person listed in the geofence warrant who doesn't live there. Another legit usage is to track who's on a national security site, eg. everyone in a power plant gets tracked. This makes sense to me more than any other use, so I don't think every use of this technology is bad, but it is currently extremely abused. --- Keyword warrants are similar. Keyword warrants are (iirc) standing warrants into anyone who searches certain keywords in online search. Google has been asked (several years ago at this point) to handover personal identifying information and other search history and data (like location and time) to anyone who searches up a giant list of keywords, the list was accidentally released in 2021 for a short period. The beginning of this list of these keywords are things like: "INFOSEC, Information Security, Information Warfare, IW, IS, Privacy, Information Terrorism, Terrorism Defensive Information, Defense Information Warfare, Offensive Information, Offensive Information Warfare, National Information Infrastructure, InfoSec, Reno, Compsec, Computer Terrorism," but in the body it also includes: "Firewalls, Sex, wire transfer, e-cash, credit card, virus," and so on. Certainly designed so they can pull the search history of basically every citizen whenever they want. --- The application of both in Texas vs "abortion trafficking" Texas has established a link between these two techniques. Texas has decided to place geofence warrants along every major highway out of the state, and combined that with keyword warrants for abortion and related terms online. They are pairing the personal identifying information from the geofence and keyword warrants to identify "abortion traffickers" for the state to prosecute. --- My thoughts Fucking disgusting. A mass abuse of governmental power and overreach, not to mention the human rights and autonomy. There's a post in my history somewhere about autonomy utilitarianism which is basically the moral philosophy i hold to, though i think i called it agency utilitarianism at the time. I've never really found a good resource to describe it online. I play video games with random folks, and we chat. Almost inevitably when I get chatting with someone from the south (Texas, georgia, florida) they start going off on how the state cucks me (Canada and California) and our government is too big. It's hard not to throw this kind of thing back in their face. Their state governments have way more to say in what they do than any government I've lived under. I'm very much a live and let live person. I live mine, your live yours, if I'm bothered by something, talk about it peaceably and try not to get the Govt involved. And frankly believe, they Govt should almost never be allowed to get involved unless it's becomes a public hazard, but that's a different post.

[emjee]

Last week a Christian publication I subscribed to published an anti-abortion piece so I unsubscribed and wrote a scathing response to the “why are you unsubscribing” question box and it turns out I’m still so furious that I dreamed about it last night

Not that it matters anymore but I had casually been thinking about trying to pitch them someday and there are people in my Christian publishing circles that I now look at askance because they edit for or have written for this publication and idk how much they know or agree with. If the publication I currently write and edit for ever published something like that I would walk on the spot.

And as ever I hate it when people I share a religion with decide I shouldn’t have rights because of that religion 🙃 Have fun explaining that one to Mom*

*God