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Podcast: One Thing Today in Tech
Episode: Google will delete location history of abortion clinic visits; PE VC investments in India fall 30 percent
Description: Google will delete location data of users who have visited personally sensitive places, including abortion clinics, the internet search giant said in a blogpost on Friday, a week after the US Supreme Court struck down a landmark 1973 judgement — now widely known as Roe V. Wade — that had ensured a woman’s right to an abortion in America. The reversal has polarised opinion world over.
“Some of the places people visit — including medical facilities like counselling centres, domestic violence shelters, abortion clinics, fertility centres, addiction treatment facilities, weight loss clinics, cosmetic surgery clinics, and others — can be particularly personal,” J...