Google to Delete Abortion-Clinic Visits From Location History
Google said it would begin automatically deleting visits to abortion clinics from its users’ location history, a move that comes amid growing calls for tech companies to ramp up privacy controls in the wake of last week’s Supreme Court decision to eliminate the constitutional right to an abortion.
The company, a unit of Alphabet said physical locations visited by users of Google products are stored in the location-history setting of their Google account. That setting is off by default, and location data is only stored for the people who have opted to turn it on, Jen Fitzpatrick, Google’s senior vice president for core systems and experiences, wrote in a blog post Friday.
