In the coming weeks, Google says it would begin automatically erasing visits to abortion clinics, domestic violence shelters, weight reduction clinics, and other potentially sensitive sites from users’ location history. In a blog post published on Friday, the business stated that the deletion will occur “shortly after” the visit, once its algorithms detect that a journey to one of the sites was made. This shift is occurring in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and the immediate actions taken by some states to criminalize abortions.
