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class=\"single-article__container js-single-article-content\">\n<header class=\"single-article__header \" readability=\"24.594178082192\">\n<div class=\"single-article__header-content\" readability=\"30.334615384615\">\n<ul class=\"single-article__eyebrow\">\n<li class=\"single-article__category\"> <a class=\"single-article__category-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/news\/government\/\"> <span>Government<\/span> <\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Legislative efforts have suffered due to little Republican interest and a lack of urgency in Congress to address privacy issues. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"single-article__cover-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"single-article__cover\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/a-year-after-dobbs-federal-privacy-legislation-to-protect-abortion-seekers-remains-stalled.jpg?resize=640%2C427&ssl=1\" class=\"single-article__cover-image 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<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"single-article__content\">\n<div class=\"single-article__content-inner has-drop-cap\"> <html readability=\"70.227055507903\"><body readability=\"140.45411101581\"><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s decision last June to reverse Roe v. Wade sparked new worries that the massive amount of digital health and location data that companies collect could provide a deep well of evidence for states seeking to track and potentially arrest anyone seeking or receiving an abortion. <\/p>\n<p>Some of those fears have been realized. After the Supreme Court\u2019s Dobbs decision overturning a constitutional right to abortion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/08\/12\/nebraska-abortion-case-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">news surfaced<\/a> that Nebraska police served Facebook\u2019s parent company Meta a search warrant for messages that turned out to be related to an illegal abortion. In March, a Texas man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/03\/14\/encrypted-messaging-texas-abortion-suit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">filed a civil lawsuit <\/a>against three women he alleges helped his wife obtain an abortion. The lawsuit cited unencrypted text messages.<\/p>\n<p>But even though the ruling ushered in <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/period-tracker-delete-abortion-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">urgent pleas from advocacy groups and many lawmakers for legislation to safeguard reproductive health data<\/a> that can be easily obtained by data brokers or law enforcement, there remains little movement in Washington to pass legislation to strengthen U.S. privacy protections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do think that there is a greater awareness now,\u201d Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., told CyberScoop. \u201cAs a young person, I think it\u2019s taken Congress too long to catch up with the American people in understanding these vulnerabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jacobs, who introduced the \u201cMy Body My Data Act\u201d last year is one of the lawmakers who has led the conversation about reproductive and sexual health privacy in the wake of Dobbs. The legislation limits the reproductive and sexual health data that entities can collect and protects personal data such as cellphone data and search engine history not currently covered by the landmark health data protection law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs reintroduced the legislation in May with 91 cosponsors in the House and 13 sponsors in the Senate. She is still seeking privacy-minded Republicans to co-sponsor the legislation but acknowledged the difficulty in getting bipartisan support. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact of the matter is this isn\u2019t just about abortion,\u201d said Jacobs. \u201cIt\u2019s all sexual and reproductive health data. So if you\u2019re a 70-year-old, Republican man who doesn\u2019t want your wife to know you\u2019re searching about gonorrhea on Google this does protect you, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., a co-sponsor of the bill, said that while Republicans aren\u2019t going to take up the bill \u201cit\u2019s important to build support for these policies so that the minute that we take over the majority that we\u2019re ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The legislation has gained the support of a number of civil liberties and reproductive rights groups. \u201cWith the GOP dead set on criminalizing abortion, it is critical that we do everything we can to protect the data and privacy of those seeking and providing care. We\u2019ve seen our champions at the federal and state levels spring into action to do so, including U.S. Representative Sara Jacobs \u2026 or California state Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan\u2019s AB 254\u2014which ensures the privacy of individuals when they use apps and websites that provide reproductive health services,\u201d NARAL Pro-Choice America Communications Director Ally Boguhn wrote to CyberScoop in an email. <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Where Washington has seen more success in protecting reproductive health data is in regulatory action helmed by the White House. For instance, President Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/biden-executive-order-reproductive-privacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">last summer signed <\/a>an executive order tasking the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Health and Human Services with protecting abortion services. In April, HHS proposed a rule that would strengthen existing privacy protections under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act by prohibiting healthcare providers from disclosing reproductive healthcare data investigating an individual for a legal abortion. Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/ag.ny.gov\/press-release\/2023\/attorney-general-james-co-leads-coalition-24-attorneys-general-supporting'\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">24 state attorneys general threw<\/a> their support behind the proposed rule.<\/p>\n<p>States with pro-choice leadership have also pushed through a cohort of laws around reproductive health, such as shield laws in New York, Washington and California barring entities from sharing data about legal abortions with states conducting criminal investigations into the behavior. California lawmakers are also seeking to ban reverse search warrants that could ensnare abortion seekers, <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/california-lawmaker-reverse-warrants-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">as CyberScoop first reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far, we haven\u2019t seen indicators that these types of shield laws have actually proved necessary\u2026 but we expect it is certainly just a matter of time before they do,\u201d said Jake Laperruque, deputy director at the Security and Surveillance Project for the Center For Democracy & Technology.<\/p>\n<p>Experts note that there could be several reasons there haven\u2019t been more high-profile cases of digital evidence showing up in abortion criminal cases. One is that companies that receive law enforcement requests are often subject to an initial gag order. Secondly, abortion-related investigations may not be explicitly labeled and may instead be charged as a crime like murder or child endangerment.<\/p>\n<p>Even with some strides by states and the Biden administration, without Congress to codify abortion and privacy rights, many state and agency protections fall short. For instance, the HIPAA rulemaking only applies to states where abortion is legal. Applying the protections all states would take an act of Congress. Rep. Jacobs and Eshoo\u2019s Secure Access for Essential Reproductive (SAFER) Health Act, which served as a model for the HIPAA rule, would apply to all reproductive health information regardless of local laws.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Democrats in both chambers are expected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/06\/20\/democrats-abortion-votes-roe-dobbs-supreme-court\">force a vote on legislation<\/a> protecting access to abortion nationally ahead of the Dobbs anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, legislative solutions tailored to health data ignore a world of data that can also be used to incriminate abortion-seekers, such as private messages and geolocation history. Protecting other forms of metadata requires more comprehensive federal privacy legislation. After Dobbs, <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/roe-v-wade-reversal-privacy-legislation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">many civil society groups redoubled support<\/a> of the American Data Privacy and Protection Act, comprehensive privacy legislation that passed out of its House committee last summer but has yet to be reintroduced this year. Eshoo and Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., introduced their own comprehensive privacy legislation, the Online Privacy Act, in April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cADPPA would go a long way to not only raise the bar for protections around sensitive data, including health data,\u201d Andrew Crawford, senior policy counsel on the Privacy and Data Project at CDT, told CyberScoop. \u201cOur approach to data privacy burdens the consumer far too much and does not place much of a burden requirement on companies to act as responsible stewards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crawford, who recently released with CDT a guide for best practices for companies to protect reproductive health data, says that the private sector also plays an important role in protecting consumers. Concerns about reproductive health privacy have put pressure on companies to take steps to reduce harm. For instance, Google last summer promised to stop collecting users\u2019 location data for visit to reproductive health clinics. Fertility and reproductive tracking apps at the center of new fears also responded with new privacy modes, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/9\/14\/23351957\/flo-period-tracker-privacy-anonymous-mode\">Flo\u2019s anonymous mode<\/a> which allows users to track on the app without sharing data like their name or IP address. <\/p>\n<p>Crawford emphasized that any company that collects information like location data could find itself on the receiving end of a law enforcement request and that the kinds of protections that CDT is pushing apply to every company.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe would like folks to embrace these best practices right now and they don\u2019t necessarily need legislation to do it,\u201d said Crawford.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers aren\u2019t giving up, however. \u201cI think together with my colleagues we have built legislative products that are worthy of the support of members but most importantly they would be laws that would fully protect women in our country given the Dobbs decision,\u201d Eshoo told CyberScoop. \u201cIt\u2019s a different era. 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