Export Compliance Daily is a Warren News publication.

To Protect Abortion Services, Democrats Ask Google to Stop Saving Location Data

Google should stop collecting and saving location data in order to prevent “extremist prosecutors” from using the data to identify individuals obtaining abortions, Democrats wrote the company Tuesday. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., and more than 40…

Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article

Export Compliance Daily combines U.S. export control news, foreign border import regulation and policy developments into a single daily information service that reliably informs its trade professional readers about important current issues affecting their operations.

Senate and House members signed the letter. Google’s data retention practices might “allow it to become a tool for far-right extremists looking to crack down on people seeking reproductive health care,” they wrote. Google didn’t comment.