This is not a drill.
The nightmare scenario for personal privacy in a world where women are stripped of their reproductive rights is coming to pass:
Meta, Google, other tech companies are providing police with evidence to help prosecute women who seek or perform abortions
The article (which, ugh, co-mingles a bunch of issues without properly addressing any of them) says Meta gets 400,000+ government requests for user data per year, so about 1,100 per day. The cost of protecting privacy by reviewing every request is a disincentive to do so. Tough shit
Meta (et al.) need to figure out how many experts they need to hire to effectively deal with those requests. Right now that is cost that they are externalizing onto their users/public. That *is* on them.
Christopher Mims
My camera shoots fascists