In a second case, another researcher, Aditi Ramesh, turned on location tracking on a new Android device. She then traveled to two Planned Parenthood locations in Los Angeles in October. In both cases, screenshots show that while the exact address wasn’t stored in her Google timeline, the routes were retained and, in one case, the route included a pin at the exact location of the Planned Parenthood. On 22 November, the information was still stored in Ramesh’s activity timeline.
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“Despite the promises of well-intentioned technologists, it is entirely unsurprising that new experiments are showing that sensitive information connected to abortion is being collected and retained by the advertising giant,” wrote Jackie Singh, the director of technology and operations at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (Stop), in messages to the Guardian.
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