WHAT MATTERS: What do companies and apps know about you, and what can they put together from that?

CAHN: Increasingly, tech companies know every place we go, everything we've searched for online and almost every moment of how our lives are spent.

It is an incredibly invasive and intimate way to reconstruct our lives, whether that's to figure out what advertisers want to sell us or increasingly for police to try to investigate us.

WHAT MATTERS: The fear is this information could be used in abortion prosecutions, if those start happening. How is it currently used in the justice system?

CAHN: In 2022, electronic surveillance and device searches are an everyday part of American policing. Officers submit warrants to Google by the tens of thousands. ... Nearly every app on our phone is collecting information that can potentially be used.

And even companies like Apple, which spend millions of dollars advertising privacy protections, oftentimes are completely unable to protect their users if they get a court order.

With abortion prosecutions, we're not afraid of something unprecedented. We're afraid of something that is already happening, simply accelerated, and we already see examples of pregnant people being targeted by police and prosecutors because of electronic information.