After Roe’s repeal, Trahan puts big tech spin on data privacy.

Amazon.com Inc., Oracle Corp. and other data providers have been pressured by a group of U.S. lawmakers over how they sell cell phone location data to ensure that the data cannot be used to track individuals seeking abortion services.

But U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan, one of the House members who questioned the companies, said she was not satisfied with the answers.

While all the companies detailed ways to anonymize data, “even before Roe’s reversal increased the stakes for tens of millions of women, the same practices and policies proved inadequate at many brokers,” Trahan said in a statement.

Trahan was among six Democratic House members and privacy groups Access Now, Future Fight and Amnesty International who in July requested information on data protection policies from Amazon, Oracle, MobileWallet and Intelligence Intelligence Holdings Inc.

The questions follow a Supreme Court decision that struck down federal abortion rights, raising concerns that local data could be used by law enforcement to ban or restrict abortions and to promise to prosecute people seeking reproductive care.

Oracle’s data platform does not allow customers to create data sets deemed sensitive, such as pregnancy or abortion, or to “act as a neutral marketplace for raw data on individuals’ location data,” wrote Oracle executive vice president Ken Gluck. In a letter to members of Congress.

Amazon says any information sold on its platform is anonymized, and it complies with applicable state and local laws. A spokeswoman for Trahan’s office said that complying with local laws in this context means providing digital evidence of abortions under court orders.

Amazon and Oracle sell data products from third-party companies through their cloud marketplaces, including bulk location data collected from mobile phones. Lawmakers have been sounding the alarm over the sensitivity of these data streams, and calls for regulation are accelerating in the wake of the court’s decision.

Privacy regulation has become a focus in Washington — a bipartisan legislative package has been widely adopted in recent months — but lawmakers are divided over its implementation and other key issues. Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Lena Kahn announced late last week that she is exploring new rules to protect the personal information businesses collect about consumers.

MobileWalla, a privately held company that collects and sells data from cellphones, told lawmakers that it does not sell data to law enforcement or allow customers to provide or use it for law enforcement.