Google said it will automatically begin deleting visits to abortion clinics from its users’ location history, a move that comes amid growing calls for tech companies to step up privacy controls in the wake of last week’s Supreme Court ruling repealing the constitutional right to an abortion. .
The company, a unit of the alphabet He said that the physical locations visited by users of Google products are stored in their Google Account’s Location History setting. This setting is turned off by default, and location data is stored only for people who have chosen to turn it on, Jane FitzpatrickGoogle’s senior vice president of core systems and experiences, Wrote in a blog post Friday.
