1 Aby vs 100 GorillasJun 12

Police in UK can now take women's phones and check their period tracking app

Several women's health and safety organisations have spoken out against the 'shocking' new guidance, vowing to 'aggressively challenge' it

"New guidance in the UK has handed British police the power to trawl through women's phones if they suspect said individual has undergone an illegal abortion.

As per an announcement made by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) last month, officers investigating the causes of stillbirths, miscarriages and unexpected pregnancy losses will now be permitted access to check menstrual cycle tracking apps.

The alleged aim of the incoming procedure is to 'establish a woman’s knowledge and intention in relation to the pregnancy.'"

#UKPol #ReproductiveRights #ReproductiveJustice

https://www.tyla.com/news/uk-police-force-checking-womens-phones-period-apps-illegal-abortion-468700-20250606?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwK3BkRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHo9dTikN0i4iv1z06L-2mGDMbTt-B-aQfQdTw9S4YfpfkHlnUeCPJOiHkX1C_aem_0lFBKwqqr27GIRjaumgqfQ

UK Police can now take women's phones and check their period tracking app

Several women's health and safety organisations have spoken out against the 'shocking' new guidance, vowing to 'aggressively challenge' it

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Show threadFediThing 🏳️‍🌈Jun 12

@aby

The "National Police Chiefs' Council" featured in this article is not a government body, it's the reworking of a very notorious privately-owned company called ACPO:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Chief_Police_Officers

ACPO wasn't accountable to anyone and behaved very oddly, it was like a secret society for police chiefs, it even ran its own DNA database.

There was a BBC documentary in the 1980s about ACPO about how dubious and opaque it was, meddling in things that should have been under democratic control: https://archive.org/details/SecretSocietyPart4AssociationOfChiefPoliceOfficers-Acpo

It wouldn't be surprising if they have got up to their old habits of ignoring public oversight to push hidden agendas.

Association of Chief Police Officers - Wikipedia

Show thread1 Aby vs 100 Gorillas
@FediThing - I'm not sure what the point of mentioning that is? "That harmful and oppressive thing is being done by a powerful org that's not the govt" doesn't make it any better...?
Jun 12 at 8:53pmWeb
Show threadFediThing 🏳️‍🌈Jun 13

@aby I'm not saying this makes it better, I'm just trying to shed light on who is doing this horrible thing so they can be pressured. One of the things the ACPO documentary highlighted was how much they enjoyed flying under the public radar because it helped them avoid accountability.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean it to sound like I was criticising the original post 😞