In the future, Google wants to delete the location data of users who have visited abortion clinics, women's shelters and other similar places in the United States.
"If our systems determine that someone has visited one of these locations, we will delete those entries from Location History shortly after the visit," Google executive Jen Fitzpatrick announced on Friday.
The change will come into effect in the coming weeks.
Other places where Google no longer wants to store location data from smartphones in the future are fertility clinics, addiction clinics and weight loss clinics.
Abortion already banned in some states
With the announcement, the technology group is reacting to the abortion ruling of the US Supreme Court.
Just over a week ago, the Supreme Court issued the landmark decision “Roe v.
Wade” in 1973, which enshrined a national right to abortion.
This means that the states can now largely or even completely ban abortions.
Some conservative-governed states have already done so.
After the verdict, activists and politicians called on Google and other technology companies to stop storing location history and other sensitive user data so that the authorities could not use them to investigate abortions.
Fitzpatrick explained in a blog post that Google has long rejected "overly broad claims by law enforcement agencies".
"We consider the privacy and security expectations of the people who use our products, and we notify people when we comply with regulatory requirements," she wrote.
In the United States, even before the Supreme Court ruling, there were fears that authorities could use smartphone location data in investigations into abortion.
Several states have passed legislation in recent months encouraging individuals to sue doctors and others who have helped women get abortions.
Parliamentarians from the Democrats therefore wrote a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai in May, in which they asked him to stop collecting location data so as not to turn the data into a "tool used by right-wing extremists".