UK – Anti-abortion groups using geo-fencing tech to target women inside clinics

Anti-abortion groups using geo-fencing tech to target women inside clinics
Targeted ads, fake websites, and digital dossiers form a range of technologies used by organisations opposed to abortions

By Michael Cogley, Technology Correspondent
21 April 2020

Anti-abortion groups are using “geo-fencing” technology to target ads towards women inside abortion clinics, a new report has found.

The technology creates a virtual boundary around an area that will trigger a response when a mobile phone enters or leaves an area.

Continued: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/04/21/anti-abortion-groups-using-geo-fencing-tech-target-women-inside/

UK – Police called after Stella Creasy targeted by anti-abortion group

Police called after Stella Creasy targeted by anti-abortion group
MP ‘physically sick’ at poster claiming to show aborted remains beside her image

Sarah Marsh
Sat 28 Sep 2019

The Labour MP Stella Creasy has contacted the police and said she feels “physically sick” after being targeted by an anti-abortion group.

Creasy, who represents Walthamstow in parliament, expressed her concern as protesters entered her constituency and put a poster of her next to a picture of what it claimed was “a 24-week-old aborted baby girl”.

Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/28/labour-mp-stella-creasy-targeted-by-anti-abortion-group

Sydney commuter Malcolm Frawley reveals why he took on anti-abortion evangelist Phillip Blair

Sydney commuter Malcolm Frawley reveals why he took on anti-abortion evangelist Phillip Blair

Phoebe Loomes
April 8, 2019

A passenger who told a Christian anti-abortion preacher to “shut up” on a packed Sydney train has revealed why he felt the need to stand up to the religious fundamentalist.

Malcolm Frawley, dubbed “book man” because he was reading when he confronted American evangelist Phillip Blair, told The Project on Sunday he felt compelled to address the “intrusion”.

“I think the trigger for me was hearing this loud voice start to talk about our unborn children. And I wondered whether there might be some women in that carriage who might not be interested in a conversation about unborn children that was being conducted by a man,” Mr Frawley said.

continued: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/sydney-commuter-malcolm-frawley-reveals-why-he-took-on-antiabortion-evangelist-phillip-blair/news-story/d77c41a761a0d3e255b85bf9dc4238d9

08.04.2019