Your Government’s Keeping Tabs
Janet Kuypers
8/22/22
The more we love our technology,
The more we get sucked in —
The more anyone can know anything about you,
and
The more Big Brother takes even more from you.
You think I sound crazy.
You wonder why I avoided owning a cell phone
Until my husband told me I needed one,
Decades after the advent of cell phones,
After moving me from one progressive city
To a more restrictive state in these United States...
I don’t care if my brother-in-law helped invent “the cloud,”
I am not giving another company full control of my work.
You think I sound like a conspiracy theorist,
But
I swear, we forget how quickly we can lose our privacy
With cameras everywhere in public, watching
You — and your precious cell phone tracking
Your every motion — and don’t forget that
Your apps keep your data to share
With anyone from companies
Who want your extra money, to
Your overly-invasive government,
Who wants to take more of your rights.
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This slippery-slope idea doesn’t resonate with most,
I get that.
So, I suppose it make sense for some to use
Period-tracking apps or
Pregnancy apps on your phone... but
Privacy issues are all but forgotten when
Potentially, data monitoring women’s reproductivity,
After abortion’s now nearly banned in at least 15 states,
Can be used by our government,
When most of these “apps” have very vague
Privacy policies for that data they track...
You may think I’m crazy,
Ringing that conspiracy bell too wildly, but I don’t care.
It doesn’t matter which abortion-issues state I live in,
I don’t want anyone else knowing about my monthly cycles.
You can tell me I’m just too protective of what should be
Personal to any human being, but I’m telling you,
When we don’t protect rights for some human beings
(And people start by restricting women’s rights
In states passing abortion laws, in what they claim
Is an effort to protect clumps of cells not even alive)
As you turn the other cheek
When rights are taken away from some,
Then more and more rights are taken away,
until
Eventually there’ll be no one to help you
When they take you too.
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