NY Senate Approves Privacy Curbs on Abortion Data Gathering (1)

Tech companies would face sweeping restrictions on selling consumers’ health data under an abortion-rights bill passed by the New York state Senate Monday.

The measure (SB 158D) highlights the growing nexus between reproductive rights law and digital privacy over fears that red state officials will lean on data collection to pursue abortion cases beyond their borders. Officials in Democratic-controlled states like New York have positioned their states to block such efforts following the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision invalidating Roe v. Wade.

“Every step that we take in the post-Roe world towards greater reproductive equity, and supporting maternal ...