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Speaker 1: Welcome to tech Stuff, a production from I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: He there, and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer with I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: And how the tech are you. It's time for the

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Speaker 1: tech news for Thursday, June two thousand, twin D two.

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Speaker 1: Let's get to it now. Here in the United States,

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Speaker 1: one of the big big stories is that the Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court has overturned the historic decision in Roe versus Wade,

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Speaker 1: which guaranteed the legal protection for a woman to choose

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Speaker 1: to have an abortion. To get into all of this

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Speaker 1: would go well beyond the scope of this podcast, but

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Speaker 1: the ramifications of that decision have spilled over into the

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Speaker 1: tech community in numerous ways. For example, there are a

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Speaker 1: lot of apps designed to help women keep track of

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Speaker 1: their periods, and women in many states have been deleting

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Speaker 1: those apps from their devices, and some political leaders are

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Speaker 1: calling on rules that would grant protections regarding the privacy

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Speaker 1: of personal data for people who use these kinds of apps.

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Speaker 1: The fear is that a woman who's using that kind

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Speaker 1: of an app in a state that has outlawed abortion

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Speaker 1: could be put in a position in which accords subpoenas

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Speaker 1: the app creator to get access to that woman's private

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Speaker 1: medical information in a case brought against her, which is

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Speaker 1: a truly disturbing thought and unfortunately as it's a possible

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Speaker 1: realistic scenario. And so we're seeing this exodus from apps

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Speaker 1: like that and a movement in liberal political circles to

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Speaker 1: bolster privacy protection. Those privacy protections are long overdue, they

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Speaker 1: span so much, especially for medical privacy. These are protections

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Speaker 1: that we've need did for ages. We're just now starting

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Speaker 1: to see some serious movement because of this crisis. Now,

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Speaker 1: one way companies, including those in big tech, have responded

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Speaker 1: to the Supreme Court's decision is to offer to offset

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Speaker 1: or cover the cost of travel for employees who need

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Speaker 1: to go out of state in order to get medical

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Speaker 1: services like an abortion. And that's because several states in

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Speaker 1: the US have already ruled abortions to be illegal or

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Speaker 1: they're in the process of doing so, and a few states,

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Speaker 1: like Texas, have proposed making it illegal to even go

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Speaker 1: outside the state to seek an abortion, which crosses into

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Speaker 1: some very tricky legal territory because there's a question about

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Speaker 1: whether a state can legislate on things that happen outside

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Speaker 1: of that state. Those sorts of rules, by the way,

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Speaker 1: are a big reason why women are dumping those period

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Speaker 1: that could be used against them in a legal case

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Speaker 1: in one of these states. Anyway, and Gadget reports that

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Speaker 1: Big Text offer to help support employees really falls short

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Speaker 1: because for a lot of these companies, only a small

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Speaker 1: actually designated as employees. Many of these companies rely heavily

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Speaker 1: and therefore they are not covered by these sorts of policies.

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Speaker 1: When you look at companies like Uber and Left, this

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Speaker 1: is particularly extreme. These companies have fought very hard in

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Speaker 1: courts to avoid having to classify drivers as employees. They

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Speaker 1: have insisted that drivers are instead independent contractors, and as

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Speaker 1: such those employees would not be eligible for the benefit

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Speaker 1: of having travel expenses covered by the company. This issue

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Speaker 1: extends beyond the tech industry, but tech is particularly prone

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Speaker 1: to it. Ours Technical reports that Facebook and Instagram have

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Speaker 1: been removing posts about abortion pills well individual states might

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Speaker 1: make abortion illegal. These pills are still legal by federal law.

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Speaker 1: They've been deemed safe by the Food and Drug Administration.

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Speaker 1: As such, women will still have the option to order

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Speaker 1: But people who are posting this kind of information on

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Speaker 1: Facebook and Instagram have seen their posts deleted, and in

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Speaker 1: Facebook's policy regarding pharmaceutical drugs. Namely, it is against Facebook's

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Speaker 1: policy to offer, to sell, or to give away pharmaceutical drugs,

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Speaker 1: so those sorts of posts will get removed. And that

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Speaker 1: Who wants one? That would be irresponsible. However, outlets like

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Speaker 1: The Associate to Press and Vice have experimented with various

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Speaker 1: discovered that the posts were frequently being removed. Further, ap

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Speaker 1: Meta is one of the tech companies offering to cover

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Speaker 1: an abortion. However, Meta also restricts employees from discussing abortion

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Speaker 1: if they are also forbidden from talking about it in

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Speaker 1: in the workplace, it definitely complicates matters. Meanwhile, over at TikTok,

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Speaker 1: a lot of users are creating videos that usked the

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Speaker 1: decision to overrule the Row versus Weide decision. Uh. Some

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Speaker 1: of those protests go beyond what TikTok allows, however, as

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Speaker 1: many videos that include or claim to include personal information

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Speaker 1: You aren't supposed to docks people, but those kind of

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Speaker 1: The personal information includes home addresses, uh, though those addresses

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Speaker 1: so you could argue these videos aren't revealing personal information,

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Speaker 1: But other videos claimed to show stuff like credit card

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Speaker 1: But I sometimes have my trouble getting my noodle wrapped

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Speaker 1: a little bit later in this episode, anyway, BuzzFeed News

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Speaker 1: What a way to close out pride month Amazon. The

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Speaker 1: But the proposed approach that they're talking about for two

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Speaker 1: would be to repeat what the system has determined, rather

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Speaker 1: than to make a call themselves. And personally, I'm all

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Speaker 1: for this approach. You don't have to worry about a

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Speaker 1: all the cameras and sensors are in working war that

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Speaker 1: is so I say, bring on our robot pumps. And

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