Tracking Trimesters: The Digital Surveillance of Pregnancy

• In Event: 30658 - Reproductive Surveillance and Clinical Policing

Abstract

The state and choices of our reproductive health are data surveilled, collected, and monetised under the technological status quo. While keeping a pregnancy private is nothing new, keeping a pregnancy digitally private is. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in a small city in the Northeast of the United States, this paper investigates digital surveillance from the perspective of people with the capacity for gestation.

Author

• Zahra Abba Omar, Yale University