Location Data Broker Admits Users Accessed Data for Planned Parenthood Clinics
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xgyxd7/location-data-broker-placer-admits-accessed-planned-parenthood-data
Placer.ai, a location data firm that Motherboard previously revealed was providing heatmaps of approximately where abortion clinic visitors live, has admitted that people have obtained data related to these visits in the past.
The news highlights the risk that location data providers and data brokers in general pose in a post-Roe v. Wade United States, in which anti-abortion activists and law enforcement agencies in certain states may seek out such data to determine which clinics or locations might be providing out-of-state abortions.