>What we should be asking them is whether they’re now doing everything they can to scrub their datasets of information that could be requested by police and could be used in abortion cases.
That sound illegal in and of itself.
That sound illegal in and of itself.
By this logic no user data can ever be deleted, just in case it becomes relevant to enforcing a future law.
That's cold comfort when the AG of those minority states decide to prosecute the company or their executives.
>By this logic no user data can ever be deleted, just in case it becomes relevant to enforcing a future law.
But it's illegal in 13 states right now.
You have to define what is actually illegal and how the data would be used. Most of the laws are about performing an abortion in the state. I'm not up to date on everything, but generally state jurisdiction ends at the state line. For example, someone in CA can look up high capacity magazines and buy them in another state without ever bringing them back into CA. They can't prosecute you for touching a 30rd mag in a different state.
Fair enough, but this data should be getting deleted for users in the other 37 states right now.
Executives can move to a non-extradition state, Boston and MA have already stated they won't cooperate with extradition requests in relation to abortion prosecutions.
You might also want to consider the long term cost of being parties to a human rights violation under color of law, vs the short-term cost of not doing that.
This point is actually a big part of the original decisions regarding abortion, so the current SCOTUS might very well say yes they do
If the company operates out of California, well, state's rights and that activity isn't illegal in California and there is nothing anyone can do about it.
If the company operates out of one of the states that is making abortion illegal then yea maybe, except that states such as California or New York may make it a requirement that companies collecting such data must delete it upon request from their citizens in order to operate in that state. At which point nobody is keeping their HQ in an anti-abortion state so it probably doesn't matter because there is nobody who can enforce the law. It will just come down to jurisdiction.
But good luck to anti-abortion states in enforcing these laws and trying people for murder or something. State governments are already woefully incompetent at enforcing other laws. I personally will be donating to entities that help fund people who need help covering travel expenses for an abortion.
If they pay for your data (like other entities can and do), yes they can.