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A round up of all the latest news updates and press releases from Accountable Tech.

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Washington Post: “'No one should be tracked or targeted for their personal health decisions. But that’s exactly what Big Tech’s business model of surveillance advertising right now is designed to do,' Accountable Tech policy manager Aditi Ramesh told Geoffrey."

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Accountable Tech Leads Day of Action Calling on Google to Stop Collecting and Retaining Sensitive Health Location Data that Endangers Abortion Seekers

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Washington Post: "I’m not the only one who’s spotted Google’s failure. Aditi Ramesh, a policy manager with the advocacy group Accountable Tech, has been doing her own version of this test over the last several months and found similar results. In about 60 percent of her tests, Google failed to delete location data."

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NBC News: "Accountable Tech, where Aditi works, says this isn't just about reproductive access: 'Google is collecting data about us, like the location history data that we're talking about, the search query data, is really just the tip of the iceberg.'"

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Mashable: "'The very same day Trump released a video calling the 2020 election ‘stolen’ and [demanded] January 6th insurrectionists be released from prison, YouTube decided to let him back on their platform,' Nicole Gill, executive director of the advocacy group Accountable Tech said in a statement provided to Mashable."

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Reuters: "More than 350 of his Truth Social posts would have violated Facebook's rules, including posts amplifying the conspiracy theory QAnon and pushing false claims of election fraud, liberal advocacy group Accountable Tech said in a December report."

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NPR: "Since using social media to incite a violent insurrection against the United States government, Trump's online behavior has gotten even more dangerous," Nicole Gill, executive director of Accountable Tech, said in a statement. "YouTube put profits and politics over the safety of their users, the integrity of their platform, and the wellbeing of our democracy."

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Grid News: “This research underscores the reality that Google continues to act as one of the greatest funders and facilitators of disinformation, hate speech and propaganda in the history of the world,” said Jesse Lehrich, a co-founder of the watchdog group Accountable Tech. “They’ve built a monopolistic surveillance advertising machine that — through billions of opaque, automated transactions per day — funnels tens of millions of ad dollars from unwitting brands to malign actors, often single-handedly propping up their junk sites.”

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The Guardian: "After Roe v Wade was overturned, Google promised that it would delete sensitive search data related to abortions: for example, searches for the location of abortion clinics. However, a new study by the tech advocacy group Accountable Tech has found Google is falling short. Some experts aren’t surprised."

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The Guardian: "The tech advocacy group Accountable Tech conducted an experiment in August and October to test Google’s pledge. Using a brand new Android device, researchers with the group analyzed their Google activity timeline, where the company shows what information is logged about an account holder’s actions."

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