Dobbs in a Technologized World: Implications for US Data Privacy

The Law and Ethics of Data Sharing in Health Sciences (Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci, Timo Minssen, Mark Fenwick, Mateo Aboy & Kathleen Liddell, eds.), Springer Nature Singapore, 2024.

Saint Louis U. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2023-2

13 Pages Posted: 10 Mar 2023 Last revised: 30 Jan 2024

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Jheel Gosain

Saint Louis University, School of Law, Students

Jason D. Keune

Independent

Michael S. Sinha

Saint Louis University - School of Law

Date Written: March 6, 2023

Abstract

In June of 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning 50 years of precedent by eliminating the federal constitutional right to abortion care established by the Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade. The Dobbs decision leaves the decision about abortion services in the hands of the states, which created an immediately variegated checkerboard of access to women’s healthcare across the country. This in turn laid bare a profusion of privacy issues that emanate from our technologized world. We review these privacy issues, including healthcare data, financial data, website tracking and social media. We then offer potential future legislative and regulatory pathways that balance privacy with law enforcement goals in women’s health and any domain that shares this structural feature.

Keywords: abortion, data privacy, Dobbs, reproductive rights, Supreme Court, United States

Suggested Citation

Gosain, Jheel and Keune, Jason and Sinha, Michael S., Dobbs in a Technologized World: Implications for US Data Privacy (March 6, 2023). The Law and Ethics of Data Sharing in Health Sciences (Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci, Timo Minssen, Mark Fenwick, Mateo Aboy & Kathleen Liddell, eds.), Springer Nature Singapore, 2024., Saint Louis U. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2023-2, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4381034

Jheel Gosain

Saint Louis University, School of Law, Students ( email )

Jason Keune

Independent ( email )

Michael S. Sinha (Contact Author)

Saint Louis University - School of Law ( email )

100 N. Tucker Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63101
United States

HOME PAGE: http://https://www.slu.edu/law/faculty/michael-sinha.php

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