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Google said late Friday that it will work to quickly delete location
history for people going to abortion sites and other medical sites
following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade last week.
“Today, we’re announcing that if our systems identify that someone has
visited one of these places, we will delete these entries from Location
History soon after they visit,” wrote Jen Fitzpatrick, Google’s senior
vice president of core systems and experiences, in a blog post.
Fitzpatrick noted that visits to places like counseling centers, domestic violence shelters, abortion clinics and fertility centers “can be
particularly personal.” Google parent Alphabet owns highly popular devices
and data services, including Android, Fitbit, Search and Google Maps.
That’s become a greater concern since the Supreme Court ruling, because of uncertainty surrounding whether sensitive data could be used to target
what is now potentially criminal activity.
Google’s post says, “Fitbit users who have chosen to track their menstrual cycles in the app can currently delete menstruation logs one at a time,
and we will be rolling out updates that let users delete multiple logs at once.”
The decision from the nation’s highest court overturned nearly 50 years of legal precedent by reversing its original opinion that women have a constitutional right to an abortion. For weeks, Google and other tech
companies have avoided answering questions from the media and legislators
about their data storage and practices as well as how they will comply
with potential law enforcement requests.
Google, which sent an email to employees with resources for its own
employees amid the ruling, has also faced questions about its search
results in addition to data privacy.
Even before the decision became official, lawmakers called on Google and
the Federal Trade Commission to ensure data for online consumers seeking
care would be protected in the event that the landmark ruling was
overturned.
In May, a group of 42 Democratic lawmakers urged Google CEO Sundar Pichai
in a letter to stop collecting and keeping unnecessary or non-aggregated location data that could be used to identify people seeking abortions.
Google’s Friday post didn’t say how it would respond to potential requests
from law enforcement. Instead, the company said it would “continue to
oppose demands that are overly broad or otherwise legally objectionable.”
Google also said the the responsibility is shared by many institutions.
“Given that these issues apply to healthcare providers, telecommunications companies, banks, tech platforms, and many more, we know privacy
protections cannot be solely up to individual companies or states acting individually,” the post said.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/01/google-will-delete-location-history-for- visits-to-abortion-clinics.html
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