Summary
The author conducted an experiment to hide her pregnancy from her phone by limiting online activity and surveillance. Surveillance capitalism and technology play a significant role in monitoring pregnancies and parenthood. The text discusses the complexities of privacy, surveillance, and conflicting emotions surrounding motherhood.
Highlights
id723742940
identifying a single pregnant woman is as valuable to data brokers as knowing the age, gender, and location of more than two hundred non-pregnant people, because of how much stuff new parents tend to buy.