…then they need to take internet privacy and personal data collection far more seriously (boldface mine):

With abortion access, you think about the fact now that there’s a patchwork of state laws around abortion and that in the previous era, before the Roe v. Wade decision, that was the reality as well. And in some states, there were these underground abortion clinics where people could go and have the procedure, even though it was against state law. And if you imagine trying to set up something like that today, I just don’t think it would be possible, and it wouldn’t be possible because all the devices we carry around, everywhere we go on an app like Uber, every email or Google query that we make or send is logged somewhere. The fact is that if a prosecutor in a state where abortion is illegal wants access to that data, they will get it. And so, essentially, we’ve built a society where everything is logged and when everything is logged, it’s very hard to move around the world with any sort of privacy or anonymity.

Instead of worrying about TikTok or other foreign personal data brokers (or thieves–they’re not really brokering any deals for you), Democrats need to kill the data collection business model. Unfortunately, enough of them likely don’t want to do so, but if you’re serious about enabling women to get access to abortion–including traveling to ‘free states’, then there has to be some kind of protection. If nothing else, Democratic-controlled states should pass laws preventing the access of personal consumer data by law enforcement in anti-abortion states for enforcement of anti-abortion laws.