Facebook and Google Are Still Helping Police Investigate & Prosecute Abortions
Police are requesting warrants to look through chat logs, direct messages, and search data for anything abortion-related.
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Police are requesting warrants to look through chat logs, direct messages, and search data for anything abortion-related.
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.
Meta said, the prosecution will be presented with proof. Burgess is suspected of assisting her daughter in ingesting medications of abortion.
Google, Meta, and online pharmacies can be required to turn data over to law enforcement in states where abortion is illegal.
This article was originally published at ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Online pharmacies that sell abortion pills are sharing…