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Administration is trying to find ways to protect access to abortion. now lives laying out the steps, the president used some really strong linkage here and i want to tell you about it, he said it was a terrible extreme, and totally wrong decision from an out-of-control supreme court, really rationing of that redneck -- that rhetoric there. he said he will do various amounts of things and that includes a coding access to abortion care and contraceptives especially as the administration tries to e...

You looked at on line. its treated exactly the same in the law right now, and thats what the pre-existing condition is. >> reporter: as states tighten abortion laws, prosecutors could go after people seeking an abortion or those helping them by subpoenaing data linked on fertility apps, period trackers, and on internet searches. companies currently sell that kind of data mainly to advertisers because its profitable. >> data brokers, law enforcement buy information from them allt time. it could b...

Obtain abortions in violation of state laws and it can be used to land people in jail. >> reporter: fertility and period tracking apps have some of the most sensitive reproductive information but since roe versus wade was overturned, flow, a period tracking app which says they have 240 million users announced an anonymous mode where users will be able to limit their personal information. members are encouraged to reach out to the company if they want their historical data removed. >> how can you...

Fert apps, period trackers and on internet searches. companies currently sell that kind of data mainly to advertisers because its profitable. >> data brokers, law enforcement buy information from them all the time. it could be used to incriminate us, for women and girls who obtain abortions in violation of state laws and it can be used to land people in jail. >> reporter: fertility and period tracking apps have some of the most sensitive reproductive information. since roe versus wade was overtu...

Out how to stay private. for example, a lot of consumers in in the us use. tracking apps. there are many out there and they have very different privacy policies, they do very different things to protect peoples rights, so really do research on the part of consumers.— research on the part of consumers. ~ _, , ., consumers. when it comes to goo . le consumers. when it comes to google are — consumers. when it comes to google are other— consumers. when it comes to google are other companies, |...

A more secure alternative and response is to pass this constitutional amendment in november in michigan. >> there are also questions about the security of apps that track menstrual cycles, period tracking apps. we saw in 2019 the director of the missouri state health department admitted to having a spreadsheet tracking the menstrual periods of planned parenthood patients, this had to do with an investigation, i believe, in an abortion that failed. i believe thats what it was. the reason i raise ...

Some reforms of our government as a whole to make sure people are able to trust that their government is actually representing them. >> so, you would support, then, expanding the court? how it of an appetite do you think there is in your caucus, on the house side? >> i think there are a lot of different proposals being discussed right now. adding four justices, potentially making it a 15 person court, with different ways to appoint, having term limits. i think all of these things are actively be...

Same ones who funded this right-wing gene, putting these justices in place. because they wanted tax breaks, and they wanted a corporate friendly supreme court. so we cannot let them off the hook just by having them do this nice thing. we need them to use their real political power to make sure that they are protecting the rights of their workers. and that means not expanding into states where abortion is going to be illegal, not doing conferences and other things in these states. we saw that was...

Fit for Fido, but passed over by people, Neil Newman wonders what it is like to be chipped like a dog to store your Covid data.

There are dozens of apps that will monitor your children, but just because we have access to these apps doesn't mean that we should use them.