{"id":6413,"date":"2022-07-21T15:36:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T13:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/21\/google-under-scrutiny-over-pledge-to-protect-abortion-location-data\/"},"modified":"2022-07-21T15:36:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T13:36:42","slug":"google-under-scrutiny-over-pledge-to-protect-abortion-location-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/21\/google-under-scrutiny-over-pledge-to-protect-abortion-location-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Google under scrutiny over pledge to protect abortion location data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers find movements can still be tracked despite firm\u2019s vow to protect location history of people who visit abortion clinics<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/technology\/safety-security\/protecting-peoples-privacy-on-health-topics\/\">promise to protect the location history<\/a> of users who visit abortion clinics is coming under scrutiny after researchers found that a user who had brief access to another user\u2019s Android phone \u2013 such as a boyfriend logging into his girlfriend\u2019s phone \u2013 could then relatively easily monitor the user\u2019s movements.<\/p>\n<p>The finding by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtransparencyproject.org\/\">Tech Transparency Project<\/a>, a research arm of the nonprofit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2019\/may\/12\/google-advertising-abortion-obria\">Campaign for Accountability<\/a>, comes weeks after Google announced in a blogpost that it would delete entries to sensitive locations \u2013 such as abortion clinics or domestic violence shelters \u2013 if its systems identified that someone has visited one of these places. The 1 July blogpost said the change would take effect \u201cin the coming weeks\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jul\/21\/google-abortion-privacy-location-history\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/001c4530fffbe515d36a141bb8eca277e9c83722\/0_15_3000_1800\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a32f8b8581e66904df0dc561e56832f2\" title=\"Google under scrutiny over pledge to protect abortion location data\" \/>Researchers find movements can still be tracked despite firm\u2019s vow to protect location history of people who visit abortion clinics<br \/>\nGoogle\u2019s promise to protect the location history of users who visit abortion clinics is coming under scrutiny after researchers found that a user who had brief access to another user\u2019s Android phone \u2013 such as a boyfriend logging into his girlfriend\u2019s phone \u2013 could then relatively easily monitor the user\u2019s movements.<br \/>\nThe finding by Tech Transparency Project, a research arm of the nonprofit Campaign for Accountability, comes weeks after Google announced in a blogpost that it would delete entries to sensitive locations \u2013 such as abortion clinics or domestic violence shelters \u2013 if its systems identified that someone has visited one of these places. The 1 July blogpost said the change would take effect \u201cin the coming weeks\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers find movements can still be tracked despite firm\u2019s vow to protect location history of people who visit abortion clinics Google\u2019s promise to protect the location history of users who visit abortion clinics is coming under scrutiny after researchers found that a user who had brief access to another user\u2019s Android phone \u2013 such as &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/21\/google-under-scrutiny-over-pledge-to-protect-abortion-location-data\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google under scrutiny over pledge to protect abortion location data<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}