Alphabet Inc.’s Google on Friday mentioned it will delete its members’ location historical past at any time when they go to an abortion clinic, home violence shelter, fertility middle or different similarly-sensitive place.
The change, anticipated to take impact in coming weeks, was introduced in a weblog publish.
“If our methods establish that somebody has visited one in every of these locations, we are going to delete these entries from Location History quickly after they go to,” Jen Fitzpatrick, a senior Google govt, mentioned.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade final week, Google
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and different Big Tech corporations have been beneath stress to restrict the quantity of data they accumulate that could possibly be utilized by regulation enforcement for abortion investigations and prosecutions.
Google has clashed with the federal government earlier than on knowledge assortment points: A decade in the past, it pushed again towards the National Security Agency’s bulk knowledge assortment applications.
