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All right, we live so much of our lives on the internet and information is always only

a search away. We track our health, whether it's exercise or sleep or heart rate on our

apps and increasingly we're seeing our doctors online or getting medications delivered

to us straight to our homes. But if a federal protection for abortion ends nationally

and we have to reckon with individual states getting more involved with our intimate lives,

it kicks up a lot of questions about the information we store and the information we can get.

Whether you're searching on Google or whether you download an app, even your Fitbit, we're

constantly sort of entering questions about our health or we're tracking various things.

And I think it is not made clear to people sort of who gets access to the data, who are

they selling it to, even when you delete the app that doesn't mean that you've deleted

the data.

That's journalist Rachel Cohen. As the senior policy reporter at Vox, she's been reporting

on how tech companies control our access to information on reproductive health. The likely

end to legal abortion nationwide is also spark concerns over how law enforcement might

use our data to prosecute patients.

What we've seen so far is that tech companies are kind of reluctant to draw a hard line in

the sand about where they stand on how they're going to protect or not access to information

about abortion.

That's journalist Lil Kalish, who's a reporter at Cal Matters, who's examined questions

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