As we brace for the likelihood that the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade, there is growing conversation about how states with abortion bans could go about investigating whether someone has had an abortion. This has given rise to the notion of abortion surveillance – a harrowing concept and yet something that could soon be all too real. This week, Jeanne Hruska speaks with Chad Marlow, ACLU Senior Policy Counsel on privacy, surveillance, and technology issues, about what abortion surveillance could look like and what steps people can take to protect their privacy.

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Today's Host: Jeanne Hruska, ACS Sr Advisor for Communications and Strategy

Guest: Chad Marlow, Senior Policy Counsel, ACLU

Link: "Abortion surveillance: in a post-Roe world, could an internet search lead to an arrest?" by Johana Bhuiyan

Link: "Enforcing Criminal Abortion Bans Post-Roe: ‘A Massive Escalation of Surveillance’" by Carrie N. Baker

Link: "‘Uterus surveillance’: The scramble to keep abortion data from prying eyes," by Ben Leonard

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