If Roe v. Wade is overturned, can criminal prosecutors or tech companies monitor period and fertility tracking apps, smartphone location data, and social media accounts?
Right now, there are no signs that people plan to use period and fertility tracking data to advance a pro-choice agenda, according to Adam Levin, JD, a cybersecurity expert and founder of CyberScout, a global identity and data protection company.
If you want to ensure your data is safe from such meddling, you may want to delete your app, he says, noting that using the notepad feature on your smartphone could be a safer alternative, as could using old-fashioned pen and paper.For any apps you share personal information with, set privacy settings “as tightly as possible” – and reconsider using apps if these options are unavailable, Levin says.
“With abortion rights in jeopardy, it’s more important than ever that everyone take their digital privacy seriously,” she said. “I urge everyone, especially those visiting abortion clinics or seeking abortion care, to follow the tips offered by my office and be more careful of the apps and websites they use.”
A second but less likely scenario would be the service provider tracking the pings coming off cellphone towers to find a smartphone.“It's a really tricky situation there because it depends on if the individual was put expressly in harm's way,” Malin says. What’s more, tracking someone out in public is not prohibited in general.
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