Google will remove abortion-clinic visits from location history

Google said it will begin automatically removing visits to abortion clinics from its users’ location history, a move that comes amid growing calls for tech companies to To increase privacy controls in view of last week Supreme Court’s decision to finish constitutional right to abortion,

company, a unit of Alphabet The physical locations visited by users of Google products are stored in their Google Account’s location-history settings. That setting is off by default, and location data is stored only for those who opted to turn it on, this is fitzpatrickGoogle’s Senior Vice President for Core Systems and Experiences, wrote in a blog post Friday.