Police Using Google & Facebook Data To Prosecute Abortion Seekers

[Goldie]

As abortion bans across the nation are implemented and enforced, law enforcement is turning to social-media platforms to build cases to prosecute women seeking abortions or abortion-inducing medication — and online platforms like Google and Facebook are helping.

Through data collected by online pharmacies, social media posts, and user data requests from law enforcement for message and search logs, cases for prosecution can be built against women for seeking abortion — and it has been happening since before Roe was overturned.

This spring, a woman named Jessica Burgess and her daughter will stand trial in Nebraska after being accused of performing an illegal abortion — with a key piece of evidence provided by Meta, the parent company of Facebook. Prosecutors said Burgess helped her daughter find and take pills that would induce an abortion. The teenage Burgess also faces charges of illegally disposing of the fetal remains.

TechCrunch reported that internal chat logs were provided to law-enforcement officers by the social-media company, which indicated the pair had discussed their plan to find the medication through the app.

Meta said in a statement regarding the Nebraska incident that it responded to "valid legal warrants from local law enforcement" prior to the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned nationwide abortion rights and allowed for bans in some states.

And though the warrants Meta responded to in this case "did not mention abortion" — since law enforcement had requested the chat logs while investigating the teen's disposal of the remains, which incidentally revealed the discussion of abortion pills — the subsequent charges reveal how data released by social-media companies can be used to prosecute people for abortion, even when they are being investigated for other reasons.

Police are prosecuting abortion seekers using their digital data — and Facebook and Google help them do it

Social-media sites are inundated with police requests for user data and may cooperate even if not legally required to, one legal expert told Insider.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[TheMadLionsFan]

All of this effort to regulate a womans body but we cant get common sense gun legislation passed


disgusting

 

[5th Letter]

The same ones that had an issue with wearing masks during the pandemic…

 

[mike030270]

That's why it's just as important if not more important to vote for who is in charge of your states laws

 

[Tayboo]

That's why it's just as important if not more important to vote for who is in charge of your states laws

Say it again louder for the dummies in the back!!

 

[TheMadLionsFan]

That's why it's just as important if not more important to vote for who is in charge of your states laws

sounds good but is some states its still not feasible due to extreme gerrymandering

the fact of the matter is this.....white women fucked up by voting for Donald Trump. They were the demographic that put him in office that caused this chaos

 

[Disanthrope]

All of this effort to regulate a womans body but we cant get common sense gun legislation passed


disgusting

The same ones that had an issue with wearing masks during the pandemic…

 

[SeaSnake]

All of this effort to regulate a womans body but we cant get common sense gun legislation passed


disgusting

Man they put more effort into this bullshit than actually saving the damn country and not destroying the world

 

[Love]

Wtf this is crazy

 

[konceptjones]

sounds good but is some states its still not feasible due to extreme gerrymandering

the fact of the matter is this.....white women fucked up by voting for Donald Trump. They were the demographic that put him in office that caused this chaos

Yup. This all day. They really have no one to blame but themselves. His candidates for the SCOTUS were the ones that lied under oath saying they wouldn't repeal RvW and did it anyways, which was the plan all along.

 

[Mr BFK]

sounds good but is some states its still not feasible due to extreme gerrymandering

the fact of the matter is this.....white women fucked up by voting for Donald Trump. They were the demographic that put him in office that caused this chaos

agreed at the bolded but the president doesn't make laws.............let alone state laws

 

[konceptjones]

agreed at the bolded but the president doesn't make laws.............let alone state laws

But the president appointed the justices that overturned Roe Vs Wade. Without him, it would still be in place.

 

[Mr BFK]

But the president appointed the justices that overturned Roe Vs Wade. Without him, it would still be in place.

got it....but does that make it mandatory for states to make laws that outlaw abortion?

does the appt of SC justices prevent Congress from passing laws that protect abortion rights?

 

[konceptjones]

got it....but does that make it mandatory for states to make laws that outlaw abortion?

does the appt of SC justices prevent Congress from passing laws that protect abortion rights?

With that in place, it wasn't necessary because it was understood as the rule of the land. However now we have to contend with GOP legislators that are going to block any attempt to pass a law that protected abortion rights. As long as RvW was in place, it didn't seem to be necessary to pass a law because no one envisioned a point where this longstanding precedent would ever be overturned.

 

[deadeye]

Fair.

They use social media for everything else, so why not this too.

 

[Mr BFK]

With that in place, it wasn't necessary because it was understood as the rule of the land. However now we have to contend with GOP legislators that are going to block any attempt to pass a law that protected abortion rights. As long as RvW was in place, it didn't seem to be necessary to pass a law because no one envisioned a point where this longstanding precedent would ever be overturned.

I understand

but the problem is US govt leadership always gets let off the hook

because we accept them pointing the finger at someone else for not doing the job they were elected/appointed for

mofos knew for 50yrs that there wasn't an official law in place and that the precedent could be overturned at any point

now we just gon act like both Dems/Reps didn't ignore this issue the entire time SMH

 

[Loquacious]