![]() ![]() However, tech companies being compelled to provide other kinds of legal assistance in abortion cases is not theoretical. ![]() While Bonta fears that this practice could be used to target pregnant people, it’s not clear if that has happened. “This is a big deal because the best search engine in the world is Google, which is in California,” said Brian Owsley, a law professor at the University of North Texas Dallas, who formerly served as a federal magistrate judge. Bonta hopes that the bill she’s introduced would help mitigate any ability for California-based tech companies’ data to be weaponized against pregnant people. Not only would the proposed legislation, as currently drafted, forbid the practice by California law enforcement, but it would also forbid California-based tech companies like Google from complying with such requests, even if they originate from out of state. ![]() Critics of the practices, including Bonta, dub these warrants “digital dragnets.” They add that these legal techniques are overbroad as they require combing through data belonging to a huge number of people who have nothing to do with the crime being investigated. ![]()
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