{"id":8099,"date":"2022-11-29T11:37:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T10:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/googling-abortion-your-details-arent-as-private-as-you-think\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T11:37:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T10:37:15","slug":"googling-abortion-your-details-arent-as-private-as-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/googling-abortion-your-details-arent-as-private-as-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Googling abortion? Your details aren\u2019t as private as you think"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exclusive: a study shows the company has a long way to go in upholding its pledge to protect users<\/p>\n

In the wake of the US supreme court\u2019s overturning of Roe v Wade, Google pledged fresh policies<\/a> to protect people\u2019s abortion-related data. <\/strong>But new research has shown the way our location and other personal data is stored remains largely unchanged, raising fears that intimate details of a person\u2019s abortion search could be used to penalize them. <\/p>\n

Google responds to tens of thousands of requests each year from law enforcement agencies seeking access to the vast troves of data collected on its users. In one six-month period in 2021, the most recent data publicly available, Google received nearly 47,000 law enforcement requests, affecting more than 100,000 accounts, and responded with some amount of data to 80% of them. The Dobbs decision sparked concerns that such data could be used to prosecute people seeking abortions in states where it is banned \u2013 for instance, if they searched for or traveled to an abortion clinic.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nExclusive: a study shows the company has a long way to go in upholding its pledge to protect users
\nIn the wake of the US supreme court\u2019s overturning of Roe v Wade, Google pledged fresh policies to protect people\u2019s abortion-related data. But new research has shown the way our location and other personal data is stored remains largely unchanged, raising fears that intimate details of a person\u2019s abortion search could be used to penalize them.
\nGoogle responds to tens of thousands of requests each year from law enforcement agencies seeking access to the vast troves of data collected on its users. In one six-month period in 2021, the most recent data publicly available, Google received nearly 47,000 law enforcement requests, affecting more than 100,000 accounts, and responded with some amount of data to 80% of them. The Dobbs decision sparked concerns that such data could be used to prosecute people seeking abortions in states where it is banned \u2013 for instance, if they searched for or traveled to an abortion clinic. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exclusive: a study shows the company has a long way to go in upholding its pledge to protect users In the wake of the US supreme court\u2019s overturning of Roe v Wade, Google pledged fresh policies to protect people\u2019s abortion-related data. But new research has shown the way our location and other personal data is …<\/p>\n

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