A new investigation found data related to visiting abortion clinics remained in Google accounts for months, though Google promised to automatically delete it.
, there have been serious issues with how Google’s policy change has been implemented. Over the course of recent months, the advocacy group Accountable Tech launched several investigations into Google and how it logs user activity, which you can view at myactivity.google.com.
Extensive digital trails of their journeys remained in their activity logs, weeks later, including the precise routes that investigators took. This, despite Google’s promise to immediately delete this location data. Accountable Tech’s research, shared with the, suggests that if Google doesn’t precisely detect that a user went inside an abortion clinic, and was just in the area of one, their location data isn’t deleted.
Google didn’t immediately respond to Jezebel’s request for comment on how it determines which demands for user data from law enforcement to comply with, or what abortion or pregnancy-specific guidelines it follows in the process.
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