The new legal situation in USA after the repeal or repeal of the legal regulation derived from sentence sp The case of Roe v. Wade has raised a lot of concern about the confidentiality of the data of people who want an abortion, and seeing the recent report released by Mozilla, it seems that those people have more than enough reason not to be completely calm.

Until now, few major companies and private institutions in the United States have taken a stand on the issue, perhaps because it is already dividing the country and leaning one way or the other can be bad for business. Here, perhaps, it is worth highlighting the position of Google, which tepidly and without official communication makes gestures in favor of women who want to have an abortion.

The search giant started by implementing mechanisms that help to “forget” visited medical clinics from location history. Now it goes a step further to clearly mark which medical facilities offer abortion in Google Search and Maps.

The company wants to provide clear information about this, so if it is not confirmed that the medical facility offers the option of artificial abortion, it will be marked as “not allowed to perform abortions”. Google noted that the change is being implemented as part of a series of improvements to the way its services display and label search results for certain locations.

Google says that traffic will be similar to searching for a specific brand of COVID-19 vaccine or electric car chargers, with some initial local results showing places that offer this service, and with the ability to expand the geographic search if there aren’t any nearby. This means that hospitals and medical facilities that offer abortions will be displayed according to the same criteria. The company has announced that it intends to expand this feature to more types of locations and devices. To get confirmation about whether a place offers a certain service or not, Google itself calls companies or institutions and works with authorized data sources.

However, these actions of Google may not be pure altruism, but reactions to reports published by Bloomberg and The Guardian in which it was reported that the search giant’s services regularly misled people looking for abortion clinics, and that in one in ten cases they were sent to a “crisis pregnancy” clinic instead of an abortion clinic. The news was compounded by internal pressure from the company’s more than 600 employees.

Google has stated that the changes introduced are not intended to categorize and are only intended to provide information, but there are people and media who clearly do not believe this. Whatever a company’s true intentions are, as long as it helps people make up their own minds, that’s fine.