Facebook Collaborates With the Police to Prosecute Abortion Seekers
Since abortion is forbidden throughout the nation with the reversal of Roe v. Wade , the police started to use social media to track people’s abortion-related communications. Recent news showed that chats in social media could be evidence during prosecution. According to Mashable , this spring, Jessica Burgess and her daughter will stand trial in Nebraska for performing an illegal abortion, with Meta, Facebook's parent company, providing crucial evidence. Burgess allegedly assisted her daughter in locating and taking abortion pills. TechCrunch reported that Facebook provided chat logs to the officers. Meta stated that they practiced the "valid legal warrants from local law enforcement". Facebook is not the only company sharing data. Insider asserted that many online pharmacies which sell abortion drugs shared sensitive information with third-party platforms such as Google. The information includes users’ addresses, personal information, and search data. The correlat...