The move comes over concerns that law enforcement agencies will seek such data from Google to prosecute abortion seekers.
Workers at Google's parent company Alphabet want to better protect people's abortion-related location data and search history.
"If Google or Facebook or any tech company wants to present the face of being a compassionate company and an ally for people that need reproductive health care or gender affirming health care, then they need to back that up in their actions by protecting privacy," said Okugawa, who works at a data center in Tennessee, where a law is going into effect this month that will outlaw abortion.
Okugawa said tech companies like Google have become key information providers and embedded in people's lives. So workers' demands provide an opportunity for the company to innovate.
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