Google urged to stop collecting phone location data before Roe v. Wade reversal
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More than 40 Democratic members of Congress called on Google to stop collecting and retaining customer location data that prosecutors could use to identify women who obtain abortions."[W]e are concerned that, in a world in which abortion could be made illegal, Google's current practice of collecting and retaining extensive records of cell phone location data will allow it to become a tool for far-right extremists looking to crack down on people seeking reproductive health care. The only way to protect your customers' location data from such outrageous government surveillance is to not keep it in the first place.Google obtains detailed information "from Android smartphones, which collect and transmit location information to Google, regardless of whether the phone is being used or which app a user has open," they wrote.
As said here by Jon Brodkin