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Podcast: One Thing Today in Tech
Episode: US lawmakers to Google: Stop collecting data that could target abortion seekers; the UK fines Clearview; Arcadia acquires Urjanet
Description: 42 US lawmakers from the Democratic party have urged Google CEO Sundar Pichai in an open letter on Tuesday to stop collecting and keeping unnecessary or non-aggregated location data that could be used to identify people seeking abortions, CNBC reports.
The letter comes ahead of the anticipated reversal of a US Supreme Court decision in a case, widely known in the US as Roe v. Wade, that protected people’s right to an abortion. News of the imminent reversal became public after political news and analysis site Politico published a draft opinion by the court that was confirmed by...