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title: "The Intersection Between Surveillance and Reproductive Justice: A Conversation with Michele Gilman"
date: 2025-08-08T11:23:00-04:00
author: Jonese Austin
canonical_url: "https://ourbodiesourselves.org/health-info/a-conversation-on-the-intersection-between-surveillance-and-reproductive-justice-with-michele-gilman"
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[Health & Sexuality Info](/health-info)# The Intersection Between Surveillance and Reproductive Justice: A Conversation with Michele Gilman

By Michele Gilman, Sasha Goodfriend • Last Updated: March 1, 2025

In this interview, Michele Gilman, professor of law at the University of Baltimore, speaks to Our Bodies Ourselves' menstrual cycle expert [Sasha Goodfriend](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/people/sasha-goodfriend-chair) about the intersection of surveillance and reproductive justice.

Gilman focuses on the implications of menstrual cycle tracking apps and how corporations, governments, and legal entities can co-opt personal data. She sheds light on how data profiles are used against those seeking reproductive care, such as abortions, especially across state lines. She also shares valuable tips and resources for using devices safely and highlights ways that organizations are combatting this surveillance.

\[[00:01:17](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpxRW_cc0CQ&t=77s)\] Tell us about your work on the intersection of technology and law as it relates to marginalized communities? What brought you to this work?

\[[00:02:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpxRW_cc0CQ&t=171s)\] What are some online interactions we may have without realizing that bad actors could co-opt them?

\[[00:04:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpxRW_cc0CQ&t=296s)\] How do menstruation and reproductive health get caught up in our digital profile?

\[[00:09:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpxRW_cc0CQ&t=570s)\] What technology can we trust, and are there ways to use our devices safely?

\[[00:15:46](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpxRW_cc0CQ&t=946s)\] What policies at the state and city level can individuals focus on to mobilize their efforts around?

\[[00:18:39](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpxRW_cc0CQ&t=1119s)\] How are you seeing telehealth-related reproductive care play out in the legal field? How can people support others trying to find that type of care across state lines?

\[[00:20:50](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpxRW_cc0CQ&t=1250s)\] What are some of the ways organizations are working to outsmart Project 2025 organizers and continuity to provide the necessary care?

[**Learn more about Michele Gilman's work**](https://www.ubalt.edu/law/law-clinics/all-clinics/civil-advocacy.cfm)

**Resources mentioned in this interview:**

- [EUKI app](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/health-info/euki-app-secure-period-and-reproductive-health-tracker)
- [Consumer Reports report on period tracking apps](https://www.consumerreports.org/health/health-privacy/period-tracker-apps-privacy-a2278134145/)
- [Electronic Frontier Foundation](https://www.eff.org/)
- [Digital Defense Fund](https://digitaldefensefund.org/)
- [Signal app](https://signal.org/)
- [Duck Duck Go browser](https://duckduckgo.com/)

**Other resources:**

- [If/When/How, "Internet Safety"](https://ifwhenhow.org/internet-safety-2/)
- [National Partnership for Women and Families](https://nationalpartnership.org/report/data-privacy-reproductive-freedom/)
- [Electronic Privacy Information Center](https://epic.org/the-role-of-digital-privacy-in-ensuring-access-to-abortion-and-reproductive-health-care-in-post-dobbs-america/)

This interview was recorded in March 2025

![](/assets/img/monogram.webp)Topics

- [ menstrual cycle](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/subject-area/menstrual-cycle)
- [ menstruation politics & policy](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/themes/menstruation-politics-policy)
- [femtech](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/tags/femtech)
- [reproductive justice](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/tags/reproductive-justice)
- [activism](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/tags/activism)
- [fertility](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/tags/fertility)
- [infertility](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/tags/infertility)
- [capitalism](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/tags/capitalism-2)
- [public policy](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/tags/public-policy)

![](/assets/img/monogram.webp)### *Why You Can* **Trust Us** 

- We rigorously evaluate all content
- We embrace a reproductive justice framework
- We don’t accept ads or sell products
- We reject funding from the pharmaceutical industry
- We counter misinformation and disinformation
- We address the social, political, and economic factors that affect health and sexuality

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## Data Privacy in a Post-Roe World: Period-Tracking Apps

Professor Margot Kaminski discusses data privacy concerns with period-tracking apps after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

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Professor Margot Kaminski discusses data privacy concerns with period-tracking apps after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/health-info/data-privacy-in-a-post-roe-world-period-tracking-apps)

[ResourcesRead

## Euki App: Secure Period and Reproductive Health Tracker

The Euki app is a secure reproductive health and period tracker that only stores data on your phone, not in the cloud.

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The Euki app is a secure reproductive health and period tracker that only stores data on your phone, not in the cloud.](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/health-info/euki-app-secure-period-and-reproductive-health-tracker)

[ResourcesRead

## Tips to Protect Your Privacy when Researching Abortion

Sabia Wade and Hollis Wakefield explain how to protect your privacy when using technology to seek abortion care and access.

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Sabia Wade and Hollis Wakefield explain how to protect your privacy when using technology to seek abortion care and access.](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/health-info/ten-steps-to-protect-your-privacy-when-researching-abortion)

[Stories & ConversationsWatch

## Learning How to Use Social Media Appropriately for Activism

MB talks about how helpful social media can be for activism, at the same time that it has potential drawbacks.

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MB talks about how helpful social media can be for activism, at the same time that it has potential drawbacks.](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/stories-conversations/my-story-learning-how-to-use-social-media-appropriately-for-activism)

[Where We StandRead

## Why Reproductive Justice Is Central to Our Perspective

Reproductive Justice is the right to maintain personal bodily autonomy. It is the right to have children, to not have children, and to parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities.

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Reproductive Justice is the right to maintain personal bodily autonomy. It is the right to have children, to not have children, and to parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities.](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/where-we-stand/where-we-stand-reproductive-justice)

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## Government Censorship

The free exchange of information about health and sexuality is critically important to women and gender-expansive people, especially those who are part of marginalized communities. It's also vital to fulfilling the promise of democracy.

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The free exchange of information about health and sexuality is critically important to women and gender-expansive people, especially those who are part of marginalized communities. It's also vital to fulfilling the promise of democracy.](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/where-we-stand/government-censorship)

[Stories & ConversationsWatch

## Dealing with Infertility

ES describes her journey of infertility as she and her husband tried to get pregnant and a painful procedure with a male doctor while seeking a diagnosis.

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ES describes her journey of infertility as she and her husband tried to get pregnant and a painful procedure with a male doctor while seeking a diagnosis.](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/stories-conversations/my-story-dealing-with-infertility)

[ResourcesRead

## A National Paid Leave Program Would Help Workers, Families

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities examines the benefits that would result from a national paid parental leave program.

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The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities examines the benefits that would result from a national paid parental leave program.](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/health-info/a-national-paid-leave-program-would-help-workers-families)