Hi there --

Amidst 14 states banning and numerous others significantly restricting abortion, individuals seeking care increasingly turn to online pharmacies for medication abortions. This involves safely ordering a combination of two drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol, for at-home pregnancy termination. [1]

To make matters worse, law enforcement agencies in those states are now using data subpoenaed from Big Tech companies and these pharmacies to prosecute abortion seekers. [2] So your search history, chat logs, and anything else that you send across the internet without end-to-end encryption can be used against you in a court of law.

This needs to stop. Sign the petition to Big Tech and tell them to stop sharing sensitive abortion data with law enforcement.

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Meta’s Facebook platform has become especially notable in this debate after they handed over chat logs that were used as key pieces of evidence by prosecutors to secure a guilty plea in a Nebraska case centered around abortion access. [3]

Currently, there are few if any legal protections for people who use internet platforms such as Google or Facebook and seek abortions – a factor that we should all be aware of when considering which messaging or search platforms we use and what information we type into any online platform. [4]

But Big Tech companies have an inherent responsibility to safeguard the privacy and security of their users. So please sign the petition to Big Tech companies: Stop giving abortion data to law enforcement agencies!

Thanks for reading and for taking action today,

Nicole Gill
Co-founder and Executive Director
Accountable Tech

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The Guardian: Abortion rights across the US: we track where laws stand in every state
Mashable: Police are using Facebook chat logs to prosecute abortion seekers
The Verge: Meta-provided Facebook chats led a woman to plead guilty to abortion-related charges
The Verge: The biggest privacy risks in post-Roe America