Google Receives Sensitive Data From Abortion Pill Websites

Several online pharmacies are selling abortion pills online and sharing their customers’ personal information, such as their search history and geolocation, with Google and other third parties. ProPublica has learned that by using this information, one can identify the users of these websites, which could be used to track them down. 

In post-Roe America, where there is no abortion, this type of private information could prove to be downright dangerous when law enforcement subpoenas such sensitive information to prosecute women who wish to end their pregnancies, even though data privacy advocates may be concerned about it. It could prove even more dangerous for women who wish to end their pregnancies in this country. 

It is not uncommon for police to not even have to use the courts if they wish to compel businesses to hand over this data. This is because executives often hand it over willingly and without a court order. 

In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs, which overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the right to abortion, there have been more than a dozen states in the country that are now prohibiting surgical and medical abortions – aka abortion pills – across their borders. 

ProPublica analyzed the pharmacies’ websites through The Markup’s website privacy inspecto

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