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Roe's overturn is tech's privacy apocalypse
Last edited Tue Jul 5, 2022, 08:55 PM - Edit history (1)
https://www.axios.com/2022/07/05/tech-privacy-roe-battleScott Rosenberg
America's new abortion reality is turning tech firms' data practices into an active field of conflict — a fight that privacy advocates have long predicted and company leaders have long feared. ...
Driving the news: Google announced Friday a new program to automatically delete the location data of users who visit "particularly personal" locations like "counseling centers, domestic violence shelters, abortion clinics, fertility centers, addiction treatment facilities, weight loss clinics, cosmetic surgery clinics, and others."
• Google tracks the location of any user who turns on its "location services" — a choice that's required to make many of its programs, like Google Search and Maps, more useful.
• That tracking happens even when you're logged into non-location-related Google services like YouTube, since Google long ago unified all its accounts.
---- More at Axios