New Scrutiny for Apps and Data Brokers
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Miriam Wugmeister spoke to Grid about the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which ended the national right to abortion, and concerns about digital tracking in the wake of the decision.
According to Miriam, there is an incredible pressure on companies post-Dobbs. “There are companies that are doing things and thinking about this internally but are being very careful about how much they talk about it externally,” she said.
Companies should minimize data collection to minimize risks, Miriam added. For example, a company offering employees abortion assistance, this might involve referring to such aid in paperwork as a generic “out of plan benefit” as opposed to “obtained travel services for an abortion.”
“The whole concept of data minimization, you find that in almost every privacy law in the world, so from a data security perspective, we tell people all the time, you get rid of what you don’t need, the less you have, the easier it is to protect,” Miriam said.
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