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A person is silhouetted against a wall as they look down at their cell phone outside the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center on July 29, 2021, in Los Angeles. With abortion now or soon to be illegal in over a dozen states and severely restricted in many more, Big Tech companies that vacuum up personal details of their users are facing new calls to limit that tracking and surveillance. One fear is that law enforcement or vigilantes could use those data troves against people seeking ways to end unwanted pregnancies. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

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EXPLAINER: Data privacy concerns emerge after Roe decision
By BARBARA ORTUTAY - AP Technology Writer
Tue,06/28/22-5:14PM , 826 Reads
With abortion now or soon to be illegal in over a dozen states and severely restricted in many more, Big Tech companies that collect personal details of their users are facing new calls to limit that tracking and surveillance.
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Elon Musk attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" exhibition on May 2, 2022, in New York. Musk is expected to meet with Twitter employees Thursday, June 16, 2022 in an apparent effort to assuage concerns about his $44 billion deal to acquire the social platform. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

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Musk aims to ease concerns in address to Twitter workers
By BARBARA ORTUTAY - AP Technology Writer
Thu,06/16/22-9:56AM , 163 Reads
In an unusual move for what’s been an unusual takeover bid for Twitter by the world’s richest man, Tesla CEO Elon Musk met virtually with the social platform’s employees Thursday, even though his $44 billion offer has not yet been completed.
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Facebook's Meta logo sign is seen at the company headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. on Oct. 28, 2021. According to a report released Thursday, June 9, 2022, Facebook and parent company Meta once again failed to detect blatant, violent hate speech in advertisements submitted to the platform by the nonprofit groups Global Witness and Foxglove. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar, File)

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Facebook fails again to detect hate speech in ads
By BARBARA ORTUTAY - AP Technology Writer
Wed,06/08/22-7:14PM , 128 Reads
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The test couldn't have been much easier — and Facebook still failed.

Facebook and its parent company Meta flopped once again in a test of how well they could detect obviously violent hate speech in advertisements submitted to the platform by the nonprofit groups Global Witness and Foxglove.
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Christina Taylor holds plaster casts of her baby's hands and feet at her home in Littleton, Colo., on Wednesday, April 27, 2022. Taylor chose to get an abortion when she found out after 20 weeks that her baby had no kidneys or bladder. Taylor said she honors her loss with the casts, which were made by the hospital's bereavement team. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

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Limits on early abortion drive more women to get them later
By BARBARA ORTUTAY - Associated Press
Thu,06/02/22-12:05AM , 198 Reads
An 18-year-old was undergoing treatment for an eating disorder when she learned she was pregnant, already in the second trimester. A mom of two found out at 20 weeks that her much-wanted baby had no kidneys or bladder. A young woman was raped and couldn't fathom continuing a pregnancy.
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