For now, the information is mostly used to sell us things, like baby products targeted to pregnant women. But in a post-Roe world, the data would become more valuable, and women more vulnerable.
PHILADELPHIA — When Chandler Jones realized she was pregnant during her junior year of college, she turned to a trusted source for information and advice.“I couldn’t imagine before the internet, trying to navigate this,” said Jones, 26, who graduated Tuesday from the University of Baltimore School of Law. “I didn’t know if hospitals did abortions. I knew Planned Parenthood did abortions, but there were none near me. So I kind of just Googled.
“The value of these tools for law enforcement is for how they really get to peek into the soul,” said Cynthia Conti-Cook, a lawyer and technology fellow at the Ford Foundation. “It gives the mental chatter inside our heads.”The digital trail only becomes clearer when we leave home, as location apps, security cameras, license plate readers and facial recognition software track our movements.
Jones contacted one such facility early in her Google search, before figuring out they did not offer abortions. While the data did not identify patients by name, experts say that can often be pieced together, or de-anonymized, with a little sleuthing.In Arkansas, a new law will require women seeking an abortion to first call a state hotline and hear about abortion alternatives. The hotline, set to debut next year, will cost the state nearly $5 million a year to operate. Critics fear it will be another way to track pregnant women, either by name or through an identifier number.
She wonders where the scrutiny would end. Prosecutors have already taken aim at women who use drugs during pregnancy, an issue Justice Clarence Thomas raised during the Supreme Court arguments in the case in December.STATE LIMITS, TECH STEPS, PERSONAL TIPSA few states are starting to push back, setting limits on tech tools as the fight over consumer privacy intensifies.
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