hello and welcome to bbc news. google has announced it s taking steps to remove data from its servers that could be used to prosecute people for visits to abortion clinics in the united states. it comes after the us supreme court s decision to remove a woman s constitutional right to an abortion. several states have already acted to outlaw the procedure, or severely restrict access to it. geoffrey fowler is a tech columnist with the washington post, and says tech companies need to do more to protect the sensitive data of their users. google today made basically the first statement it s made since we learned about the supreme court ruling about what kind of change it was actually going to make to its products. it said when its naps service or location data collection that it does notices that a user is near a personal location, a highly sensitive personal location, be it a hospital, clinic or shelter, it would now automatically delete that data point coming up over the next
good point and it s a wake up call for all of us, that creating these giant businesses that are based on harvesting our personal information and make money off of it, has in many ways created an accidental dystopia, right? they re taking our data and saying, 0k, they will give us in exchange useful products when we get that, and we re not thinking about all of other things that that data can be used as. it s surveillance capitalism and we re really starting to pay a price for it. protesters have been gathering in sydney, australia to demonstrate against the united states supreme court ruling to overturn the landmark roe v wade case. there have been a number of pro choice rallies around the world since the reversal. in northern ireland, access to a termination remains difficult, despite the fact that it was decriminalised more than two years ago. services are limited, and last year more than 160 women travelled to england to have the procedure. many who choose to have abortions in no
struggle to access the care they may need and if this decision is issued by the supreme court and it looks like they have the five votes necessary to overturn the landmark roe v wade case, they ll issue a state licensed to ban abortions and people have to travel and in some cases hundreds of thousands of miles to access the care they need and there are lots of resources necessary to make those kinds of trips to access care about the cost of the procedure and the medications as well as the cost for travel and lodging and the cost for childcare, majority of people who have an abortion already are a parent and there is a lot of roadblocks for people and this is only going to make it significantly worse. let s turn to ukraine