💰 Facebook and Google are handing over user data to help police prosecute abortion seekers

TL;DR

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.  "Certainly, we expect that social media companies are gonna cooperate with law enforcement when they make legitimate information requests, we need them to do that," Eric Goldman, law professor at Santa Clara University School of Law and co-director of the school's High Tech Law Institute, told Insider. Social media is in fact a pawn in that game," Goldman told Insider, adding people often don't want to get mad at law enforcement or the government for overreaching and instead get angry at Facebook or Google for complying with sometimes illegal requests

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