Missouri officials used women's menstrual cycle data in 2019 in a quest to shut down the state's last abortion clinic.[0] This was legal due to a lack of HIPAA

Missouri officials used women's menstrual cycle data in 2019 in a quest to shut down the state's last abortion clinic.[0] This was legal due to a lack of HIPAA restrictions. It would not be difficult to use this data in a post-Roe US to litigate against abortions. > companies can't even do anything very interesting with this data that they collect I'm not concerned about the companies. I'm concerned about domestic agencies that purchase that data to workaround restrictions that prevent them from collecting it.[1][2][3][4](stretching to inf.) Like your parent commenter stated, this is to avoid Fourth Amend­ment restrictions. [0] https://time.com/5713804/missouri-health-official-planned-parenthood-periods/ https://time.com/5713804/missouri-health-official-planned-pa... [1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/treasury-watchdog-warns-of-governments-use-of-cellphone-data-without-warrants-11614003868 https://www.wsj.com/articles/treasury-watchdog-warns-of-gove... [2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-agencies-use-cellphone-location-data-for-immigration-enforcement-11581078600 https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-agencies-use-cellphone-... [3] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/ice-dhs-cell-phone-data-tracking-geolocation https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/ice-dhs-ce... [4] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/02/26/ice-private-utility-data/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/02/26/ice-pri...