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

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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.

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