Check your VPN, abortion seekers. New ‘Vagina Privacy Network’ aims to keep data safe

“Two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, reproductive rights and data privacy advocates teamed up to launch a new kind of VPN: The Vagina Privacy Network.

The campaign offers a how-to guide on protecting digital privacy for people worried their data could be used against them after they’ve had an abortion, particularly those in one of the 14 states that ban the procedure. The seven tips range from using encrypted messaging apps to communicating on burner phones, which campaign creator MSI Reproductive Choices has been handing out at reproductive rights marches nationwide, according to Whitney Chinogwenya, the organization’s global marketing manager….”