An abortion controversy hits Facebook

Platforms find themselves in an impossible situation after Roe. Is there a way forward?

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When Roe vs. Wade was overturned, it sparked a fresh conversation about the vast amounts of data collected by a wide variety of companies — and the vanishingly few privacy protections that most Americans have under law. Data privacy, a topic that has often felt abstract in the first few decades of the consumer internet, sudden…