ANALYSIS: Who Will Regulate Privacy in Femtech After Dobbs?

The US Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org. decision has brought health privacy and femtech into the spotlight on a federal and state level.

Femtech is a term covering the technology used for such health purposes like period tracking, reproductive health, and fertility solutions. The Dobbs ruling could impact users of femtech products because information stored on them can be used to determine if someone has had an abortion. Period trackers, for example, store information that can be used by government actors for this purpose.

Members of Congress have pushed for revisions to the federal health privacy ...