The data privacy landscape post-drops.

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Lily Dramale. Yesterday we talked about how even after the US Supreme Court took away the federal right to abortion two years

ago, Telehealth has helped provide ongoing access including to people in

states where abortions now banned.

Today we look at online apps that link patients with abortion providers.

Digital privacy protections are far from equal across these services,

says Julie FK,

executive director at the abortion coalition for telemedicine.

Medication abortion is done by a combination of two pills,

Mifopristone and mesoprostal.

The two of them combined really, you know, could be easily flagged as somebody is accessing them to have an abortion.

So if you're doing a web search for how do I get an abortion or what is Miffer Pristone,

there are so many more ways of surveilling people through digital means right now that there is that greater risk.

And law enforcement can be the entity that is doing that searching.

Yeah, we've seen that law enforcement can look into people's social media accounts.

We've also seen in situations of interpersonal violence,

the angry ex-partner or the you know controlling partner who is looking at

digital footprints for example there was a case in Texas where there was what we

refer to as the angry ex-husband,

who was looking through his wife's text

and saw her communication with some close friends

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