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Tech Life discovers and explains the ways technology is changing our lives, wherever we are in the world.

Tech Life discovers and explains the ways technology is changing our lives, wherever we are in the world. We meet the people with bright ideas for rethinking the way we work, learn and play, and get hands-on with the products they dream up. We hold tech giants to account for their huge power to affect our lives, and ask who wins, and who loses, in the technology transformation. Tech Life is your guide to a future being made, and remade, at lightning speed in front of our eyes.

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Tech Life: The profound tech consequences of Roe v Wade

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The profound tech consequences of Roe v Wade

01/07/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - Tech Life, The profound tech consequences of Roe v Wade

How the Supreme Court's abortion ruling is radically reshaping people's online lives

The US Supreme Court's ruling on abortion rights has profound implications for what data people store online and how they communicate - and how should big tech companies react?

Professor Gina Neff and Eva Blum-Dumontet investigate how individuals and tech companies should react to abortion becoming illegal in parts of the US. David Martin Ruiz from the Eurpoean consumer group BEUC explains what it calls Google's "fast track to surveillance" for its users, and making virtual reality sound immersive, with professor Mark Plumbley.

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