The United States was rocked by last summer’s U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a landmark decision overruling both Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. While I expect much political discourse to continue, this article focuses on the direct implications for privacy and data protection regarding abortion.
It is important to understand what privacy is and how it is defined before determining what protecting privacy in the context of abortion may require. While the scope of privacy is wide-ranging, at its core, privacy is a dignitary right focused on knowledge someone may or may not possess about a person.