> In Texas, you can sue anyone who aids and abets a woman who attempts to get an abortion for $10,000, which is enough to get someone to trick someone into installing malware on a phone.

Anecdata for people who think this is unlikely: my wife had an issue getting unclaimed property back from the state of Texas and hired someone who advertise the ability to help. She turned out to be a bulldog with a ton of knowledge of the necessary bureaucracy. She put hours per week into it on our behalf for months, through many rounds of filing paperwork and then hounding bureaucrats on the phone by telling them exactly how and why we could sue if they ignored it. She did all that for a cut that was a fraction of the $10k abortion bounty. The $10k might seem like a symbolic gesture, but it will spawn a cottage industry of bounty hunters. No doubt most of them will be ideologically excited wannabes who quickly give it up, but some will be dogged and effective and will cultivate an expanding repertoire of skills. It's a terrifying prospect.

There will be many, many people who never previously entertained the idea of getting involved in serious criminality who now need protection from the prying eyes of the state and their fellow citizens. To look at it from a cold and opportunistic viewpoint, this could change the public perception of digital privacy from being just for dangerous creepy people to something that everybody should value.