Motherboard asked if each will provide data in response to requests from law enforcement if the case concerns users seeking or providing abortions, or some other context in which the agency is investigating abortions. Motherboard also asked generally what each company is planning to protect user data in a post-Roe America.

None of the companies answered the questions. Representatives from only Twitter and Snapchat replied to say they were looking into the request, but did not provide a statement or other response.

Motherboard has reported extensively on the threat posed by location and other data companies around abortion clinic visits. In those cases, we showed how trivially easy it was to anyone to buy data related to clinic visits. Those purchasers could include anti-abortion vigilantes, who have historically shown a willingness to exploit data to target and harras those seeking or providing abortions. In response to our investigations, multiple companies such as location vendors SafeGraph and Placer.ai stopped selling such data, and senator Elizabeth Warren led a group of other Democratic lawmakers on a piece of legislation that aimed to ban the sale of location and health data outside of some limited circumstances. 16 senators also pressed the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on what it was doing to protect the data of women and their health choices in response to Motherboard’s findings.