This episode of The Privacy Advisor Podcast features Khiara Bridges, who's a law professor at Boston University's School of Law. Bridges discusses the ways in which race and class change privacy rights. Based on 18 months of research she did at a lower-Manhattan hospital studying the experiences of pregnant women applying for Medicaid, Bridges says, in the interest of protecting children, the state asks questions about women’s histories with intimate violence, sexual abuse, drug use or abuse. Whereas the only information relevant to health care providers for wealthier women is how they pay their bills. "Poor people just don't have the ability to avoid state involvement, state interrogation, and state surveillance in the same way that wealthier folks can,” she says.
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