How overturning Roe v Wade has eroded privacy of personal data

In early August, prosecutors from the Madison County attorney’s office in Nebraska became the first law enforcement agency in the US to use private Facebook data to support a case against a teenager accused of having an illegal abortion.1The messages between the accused, 17, and her mother were accessed after prosecutors sent a search warrant to Meta, Facebook’s parent company, back in June. It represents the first instance of investigators accessing an individual’s data from a tech company as part of an abortion case since the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling.2“We’ve learnt that Facebook cannot be trusted with anything,” says Laura Shipp, a cyber security researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London. Shipp advises anyone seeking abortion information, or wishing to discuss the matter with family members or friends, to always do so through private browsers or encrypted messaging services to ensure that…
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