How Google Can Help States Track Abortions

“Many of the states rushing to ban abortion are also the biggest users of a surveillance tool that authorities could use to track women ending their pregnancies — the location data from people’s phones,” Politico reports.

“Supporters of abortion rights are expressing growing alarm about the potential uses that police or prosecutors could find for this data after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, including to target abortion providers or the people seeking the procedure.”

“It wouldn’t be hard to do, because states across the country are already using this kind of data for other investigations.”