Tech Companies Won't Say If They’ll Give Cops Abortion Data
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7vmm4/tech-companies-wont-say-abortion-data-roe-v-wade
Many of the biggest tech and social media companies in the world, including Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, and Snapchat, have refused to clarify whether they would fulfill or deny law enforcement requests for data that related to investigations involving those seeking or providing abortions.
The news signals the looming battleground over users’ data in the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion in the United States. Twenty-six states are certain or likely to ban abortion in the wake of the court’s opinion published on Friday. That now ushers in a new age of abortion in America: potential criminal prosecution of people around abortions by law enforcement agencies armed with the massive amounts of data.