Planning reproductive health procedures like abortions — especially after last week’s devastating Supreme Court decision — is an incredibly personal and sensitive undertaking. Privacy is of the utmost concern, and one would hope that organizations providing services like online scheduling portals fully understand and address this. Unfortunately, we can’t even get a simple bone like that tossed to us these days.
As a new report from The Washington Post details, it appears that Planned Parenthood’s online abortion scheduling portal routinely shares a vast amount of private data with third-party companies like Google, Facebook, and TikTok, including a person’s IP address, approximate zip code, and desired medical service.
