Middle East Airstrikes, Florida's Abortion Rulings, Google's Incognito Mode

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a senior security commander.

Israel has not confirmed it carried out the attack, though it typically doesn't comment

on strikes against Iranian targets.

But today, Israel and other countries are bracing for retaliation.

And another airstrike, this one in Gaza, killed seven aid workers.

Jane, it's good to have you with us.

Good to be here.

recently.

Although, as we said, they haven't commented on this one.

How significant was yesterday's attack?

It targeted Iran's diplomatic mission, the consular section of the embassy.

So strikes on military targets are one thing, but embassies are considered sovereign territory,

and targeting those is a different ballgame.

Iran announced that a senior commander of the elite Quds Force of its Islamic Revolutionary

Guard Corps and his deputy, along with five other people, were killed in the strike.

The U.S. has designated the group as a foreign terrorist organization.

Israel hasn't claimed responsibility, but as you said, it normally doesn't comment on

these kind of strikes.

Can you say more about that?

What is it expecting?

Iran has powerful proxy forces in the region, notably Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Hezbollah and Israel have waged a low-grade war across the Lebanese-Israeli border since

the war in Gaza began.

Hezbollah said the strike will be met with punishment and revenge.

That's been the fear of many governments in and outside the region, that attack outside

Gaza could escalate the conflict and spark a wider war.

Iran's foreign ministry said Iran reserves the right to take reciprocal measures.

The country's foreign minister made it clear that it holds the U.S. answerable for backing

Israel in the war in Gaza.

Iran also backs powerful armed groups in Iraq, which could also escalate attacks on U.S.

military targets there.

known in the United States, said seven aid workers in Gaza were killed while distributing

food it sent by sea.

What can you tell us about that?

The most efficient way of delivering it.

So World Central Kitchen has begun deliveries by sea from Cyprus, approved by Israel.

The second shipment left Sunday.

The group said its convoy, which included armored vehicles and was clearly marked with

the aid group logo, was hit while leaving a warehouse in Gaza yesterday on a route coordinated

with Israeli forces.

It said citizens of the U.S., Canada, Australia, Poland and the U.K. were among those killed,

along with a Palestinian.

Israel called it a tragic incident and said it was investigating at the highest levels.

Last night, the group's founder, celebrity chef Jose Andres, said they were pausing the

missions.

like this?

Israel barred World Central Kitchen from taking reporters on their missions, for instance.

It has also largely banned foreign journalists from Gaza, while the death toll of Palestinian

journalists and media workers there has risen to more than 90.

That's according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, an international press watchdog.

Israel disputes the number, saying not all counted were journalists and some weren't

working as journalists when they were killed.

And now, yesterday, Israel adopted a new press law, which allows the government to temporarily

shut down foreign news organizations operating in the country.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he'll use it to shut down the Qatar-supported news

channel Al Jazeera, although he didn't say when.

Israel says Al Jazeera has an anti-Israel bias and is a security threat.

The White House said the move is, quote, concerning.

Jane, thank you.

abortion will be the issue on the state's November ballot.

Now, that ruling also triggers a six-week abortion ban taking effect next month.

But in a separate opinion, the court says a constitutional amendment protecting the

right to an abortion will appear on the ballot in the general election, and that leaves the

final say up to voters.

Good morning, Greg.

access?

Well, with yesterday's six-to-one court decision, women can't get an abortion in Florida after

15 weeks unless there's a fatal fetal abnormality or if it's necessary to prevent serious injury

or to save the life of the mother.

That law was passed in 2022 but didn't go into effect while there was a court challenge

pending.

Then last year, the Republican-dominated legislature passed another law which would

ban abortions after six weeks with the stipulation that it wouldn't go into effect unless and

until 30 days after that earlier ban was approved, which has happened now.

So, that means Florida joins other states in the South by severely limiting the right

to an abortion.

voters this fall.

How did that come about?

passed that 15-week ban.

They gathered nearly a million signatures, which is more than enough to qualify.

The language of the ballot measure, though, had to be approved by Florida's Supreme Court.

And this is what the ballot measure says.

No law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when

necessary to protect the patient's health, as determined by the patient's health care

provider.

Florida's attorney general argued that the language was vague and misleading, but in

a narrow four-to-three decision, the court said it was okay and would go on the ballot.

States that have put abortion on the ballot, abortion rights supporters have consistently

won.

So, what are the anti-abortion activists in Florida planning to do now in Florida?

block this.

Florida's House Speaker Paul Renner, a Republican, says there will be an organized campaign to

defeat the constitutional amendment.

He says it will be aimed at people that he believes are in the political middle of the

abortion debate.

Here's what Renner says about the proposed amendment.

It is extreme in its scope.

It is the product of really abortion rights activists who have crafted this well beyond

where most Floridians will find themselves, including Floridians who would consider themselves

approach, in his view, because it allows exceptions for fetal abnormalities and to protect the

life of the mother.

in November, including the presidential election?

In places where abortion has been on the ballot, I'm thinking of Kansas, Ohio, and Kentucky,

to name a few, voters have overwhelmingly supported abortion rights.

It's also boosted turnout.

Donald Trump won Florida in 2020 by more than three percentage points, while losing nationally,

of course.

But certainly having abortion on the ballot changes expectations about who will be coming

out to vote in November.

Another key race is Republican Senator Rick Scott's bid for re-election.

Now he's more vulnerable.

He's facing former Democratic Congresswoman Debbie McCarcel-Powell.

Scott accuses her of extremism on the issue.

But even before this ruling, McCarcel-Powell has been targeting Scott for his strong anti-abortion

stance.

And she points to comments he's made that if he was still governor, he would have signed

the six-week abortion ban.

Greg, thank you.

they were searching privately.

It's part of a settlement in a class action lawsuit that found Google's incognito mode

did not live up to its name.

Good morning, Bobby.

no money.

Let's back up for a moment, though.

Back in 2020, a group of consumers filed a $5 billion class action lawsuit against Google.

It alleged that Google was tracking and collecting data on what people were searching for and

what sites they visited, even when they were in this so-called incognito mode.

That's a setting of Google's Chrome browser that, you know, is supposed to let you surf

the internet in a more private way.

Turns out, not so much.

And so Google has agreed, as you mentioned, to delete billions of data records from people

who are using incognito mode.

Google is going to give people more control over what's being collected, and the company

now has to be more clear about what kind of tracking it is doing.

Yet Google got something out of this, too.

It won't be paying any monetary damage to consumers or any fines.

No money for consumers and no fines.

So how did Google get away with this to begin with?

limit how much data was being collected if you just were on the Chrome browser.

But here's the rub, Michelle Assoon.

As you went to any website on the browser, Google got the data anyway, kind of through

a backdoor, because those websites were using tools to track users, and Google owned those

tools.

So nothing we do online is invisible, and this is a reminder of that.

Now when you launch an incognito session, you can stop website cookies from following

you around the web.

That is new and a part of this settlement.

Google also now has to tell people right on the landing page of incognito mode what the

limitations are that, yes, some data is still being tracked by Google.

Why would anybody use it?

years.

As part of this suit, lawyers obtained all sorts of internal emails with Google engineers

pushing back against incognito mode.

One engineer wrote, quote,

We need to stop calling it incognito and stop using a spy-guy icon.

And that was referring to this little spy-guy cartoon logo that was trying to convey that

you can do things secretly when you browse this way.

Another engineer wrote, a Google manager, that incognito's branding should actually

be, quote,

You are not protected from Google.

I talked to Woodrow Herzog, he's a privacy law expert at Boston University, and he says

the spy-guy branding coupled with Google saying incognito mode provided private browsing

just gave everyone the wrong impression.

and it made it seem as though you would be safer here than you would be using the general

mode.

If you're going to offer that service, then you've got to be able to back it up.

able to back up its privacy claims about incognito mode.

Does Google have any other legal jeopardy?

and running its business like a monopoly.

Two of these cases were filed by the Department of Justice and they're aimed at Google's search

business and its advertising business, how Google makes all its money.

So it's going to be a very busy year for Google in court.

Bobby, thank you.

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And that's up first for Tuesday, April 2nd.

I'm Michelle Martin.

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