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Internet search engine Google has announced that the location history of users visiting abortion clinics will not be recorded.
According to the French news agency AFP, Google vice president Jean Fitzpatrick wrote in a blog post.
If the system detects that a user has visited an abortion clinic, or a shelter home to avoid domestic violence, the record will be deleted from its location history, he said, adding that the change will take effect in the coming weeks Will be.
A country where women are imprisoned for abortion or miscarriage
Other places Google will not keep records include fertility centers for infertility, drug treatment centers and weight loss clinics.
A week later, the constitutional right to abortion was revoked from American women.
Dozens of US states have banned abortion since the Supreme Court's ruling. Politicians and social activists have called on Google and others.
Technology companies have been asked to limit the process of collecting consumer information so that they are not used by law enforcement agencies to investigate abortions.
Google's vice president assured consumers that the company takes data privacy very seriously.
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"Google has a long record of discouraging law enforcement agencies from making unwarranted demands, and some of the demands are even objected to," he said.
The company attaches importance to and we inform the consumers if the demands of the government are complied with.
Concerns over smartphone data and reproductive rights have preceded the Supreme Court's decision, with several US states passing laws in the past few months that give any citizen the right to seek abortion from doctors. Can file a lawsuit against.
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