Google said it would delete the user's position record of the US abortion clinic to prevent it from becoming evidence

According to the US News today, after the U.S. Federal Supreme Court overthrowing the "Luoje Wade Case" decision last week, the right to abortion by women was no longer protected by the federal level. Google announced that the company will automatically delete the positioning record of when their users have visited the US abortion clinic to prevent them from being used as evidence that it is unfavorable to users.

It is reported that more and more people are worried that Google and other large American technology companies collect users' activities daily. American women. Google made the above response.

There is a controversial feature of "location history". Google claims that in the next few weeks, the company will delete this kind of information that may be "particularly private", that is, users have visited some medical facilities positioning records, including consulting centers, domestic violence asylum, abortion clinics, fertility Central, detoxification, weight loss or cosmetic clinic.

Source: Visual China

It is reported that Google's blog post published last Friday wrote: "Today, we announced that if we have identified someone to visit these places, we will delete these Record entry. "

However, the United States News today pointed out that other data saved by Google can still be used by state authorities to prosecute women who seek abortion, such as searching for the history of keywords.

The US Privacy Rights Organization stated that at this particularly fragile, Google Corporation still did not do enough to protect the data of tens of millions of Americans.

Ryan Calo, a legal professor at the University of Washington, commented: "It is still the old set. In order to deal with the huge changes in privacy issues, Google promises to make some narrow changes to its approach, such as automatically deleting sensitive location data, but from the from Basically, the heavy responsibility of trying to manage his privacy still falls on the user. "

The report pointed out that according to a letter written to Google in May in May in May, Google tracked the lifestyle and positioning data of millions of people, which may become "the tools of extreme right -wing extremists. I hope to crack down on people who seek reproductive health care. "

The "American News today" pointed out that in accordance with US law, Google must abide by the government's request for the requirements of these data, but the company claims that it opposes the "excessive requirements of law enforcement departments" and notify people as much as possible when transferring data.

Google also said on Friday that the company's wearable smart device Fitbit will update the program so that users can achieve more than one time to delete more than one menstrual record. The US Privacy Rights Organization warns the public to delete the application (APP) that tracks menstruation in mobile phones and other devices, otherwise the information may become an unfavorable evidence when users are prosecuted.

(Edit: HX)

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