Balancing Privacy and Protection

Tech for Good Live

Hello and welcome back to the Tech for Good Live podcast. It’s a podcast all about using technology to have a good social impact.

This week we are talking about privacy and how the tech world is shaping the age-old fight for reproductive rights in one of the world’s richest and most powerful nations. And it’s not just about one country, but how it’s a problem for all of us - everywhere.

We also talk about what period-tracking apps are tracking, and if and who and what they’re selling about us.

But it’s not all grim. We’ve also found the strangest brand collaboration. It’s really bizarre.

Hera Hussain is on hosting duties and she is joined by fellow TFGL team members Greg Ashton and Paul Jakubowski.

Our special guest this week is Kathryn Kosmides, joining us from New York. She’s the founder of Garbo, a new kind of online background check.

Discussed in this episode:

Stat of the week

It costs just over $160 to get a week’s worth of data on where people who visited Planned Parenthood came from, and where they went afterwards.

Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics - Vice

Cycle-tracking apps stand behind their privacy policies as Roe teeters - The Verge

Charity news of the week

Does this win the award for strangest campaign collaboration:

You Can Now Pick Up A Designer Scarf Alongside Your Pret Lunch Thanks To A New Charity Initiative - Elle

Mental Health Awareness Week 2022. The theme is loneliness - i

Tech news of the week

Tinder will let you perform background checks before swiping right for $2.50 - Fortune

EU’s new rules for Big Tech will come into force in Spring 2023, says Vestager - TechCrunch

Nice of the week

It was local council election time in the UK recently and we wanted to give a shout out to Democracy Club, a civic tech initiative, whose data was used by Councils, Electoral Commission and other government websites.

And finally…

You think the roads are shit now, wait until they're made out of used nappies - Positive.news

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