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Workers at Google’s parent company Alphabet want to better protect people’s abortion-related location data and search history. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP hide caption toggle caption … Source link

Bambi Okugawa is a data center technician in one of Google’s data centers in a U.S. state with one of the strictest abortion bans in the nation: Tennessee. The state will ban abortions as early as six weeks, with no exceptions for rape or incest, on Aug. 25 due to a “trigger law.” If needed, Okugawa, could get an out-of-state abortion and could even request a permanent transfer to a different Google office due to the health benefits she gets as a full-time Google employee. However, her… Source link

A group of workers at Google parent Alphabet has asked the company to stop collecting data on users seeking information about abortions, according to a petition sent to Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai this week. The petition, signed by more than 650 workers, also called on the company to remove search results for crisis pregnancy centers, which it said were misleading to those seeking abortions. Crisis pregnancy centers are typically nonprofits that counsel women against having abortions. Source link

Google Maps continues to show results for anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) when users search for a nearby abortion clinic. A new analysis from Bloomberg shows that CPCs make up about a fourth of the top 10 search results on average in all 50 states and Washington, DC. Unlike legitimate abortion clinics, CPCs don’t actually provide abortions. They instead attempt to dissuade people from going through with the procedure and often use misinformation to make their case. For… Source link

Google’s promise to protect the location history of users who visit abortion clinics is coming under scrutiny after researchers found that a user who had brief access to another user’s Android phone – such as a boyfriend logging into his girlfriend’s phone – could then relatively easily monitor the user’s movements. The finding by Tech Transparency Project, a research arm of the nonprofit Campaign for Accountability, comes weeks after Google announced in a blogpost that it would… Source link

Google announced that it would delete location data showing when people visit abortion providers, but privacy experts, and some Google employees, want the company to do more to safeguard data. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption … Source link

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Most of the time, when authorities issue search warrants to Google for information, Google complies. It hands over emails, location history, search data. It has all kinds of information about you. So how will Google respond when authorities ask for details about people seeking abortions in places where it’s now illegal? NPR tech reporter Bobby Allyn reports. BOBBY ALLYN, BYLINE: When police are trying to solve a crime, they often turn… Source link

When police are trying to solve a crime, they often turn to Google for help. It makes sense since the Silicon Valley giant has grown into a nearly $1.6 trillion company on the strength of its most valuable asset: Data on billions of people. And often, finding out where someone was at the time of a crime, or what they were Googling before a crime occurs, can be pivotal to investigators. Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade,… Source link

July 5, 2022 — Google announced that it would work to delete location history data for people who visit abortion sites and other medical establishments. Legal experts have voiced concerns about electronic data since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and reversed its original opinion that women have a constitutional right to abortion. For weeks, Google and other tech companies haven’t answered questions about data storage practices and whether they will comply with potential requests… Source link

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google will automatically purge information about users who visit abortion clinics or other places that could trigger legal problems now that the U.S. Supreme Court has opened the door for states to ban the termination of pregnancies. The company behind the internet’s dominant internet search engine and the Android software that powers most of the world’s smartphones outlined the new privacy protections in a Friday blog post. Besides automatically deleting… Source link