The responses to the lawmakers haven’t been previously reported, and give insight into how companies are navigating heightened scrutiny on data practices as abortion becomes increasingly criminalized in the US.

Companies may have to reshape how data is interacted with and monetized as legal upheaval and uncertainty about data privacy take hold.

It’s unclear whether tech companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Meta will go to battle to protect women and health-care providers facing possible prosecution over abortions.

Representative Jacobs’ office said that one of the bill’s intents is to protect women seeking abortions from the prying eyes of law enforcement in states where abortion is illegal.

The lawsuit alleges Facebook’s Pixel tracking tool redirects patient communications and other “secure” information without authorization.

The proposed Consumer Privacy Protection Act establishes penalties of C$25 million, or as much as 5% of global revenue, whichever is greater, for companies that breach privacy rules. 

The litigation follows a former Facebook employee’s high-profile testimony in Congress that the company refused to take responsibility for harming the mental health of its youngest users.

Illumina, which has a near monopoly on the genetic-sequencing market, said it has developed a software patch for the vulnerability and is working on a permanent fix.

Sandberg joined Facebook in 2008 and was key to turning it into a social media giant that generated almost $120 billion in revenue last year.

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