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> What Google needs to do is lock information for verified businesses or businesses they’re directly scraping from the Corp location pages. If they do that and
by Sylos 8y ago
> What Google needs to do is lock information for verified businesses or businesses they’re directly scraping from the Corp location pages.
If they do that and the correct information changes without them updating, they're (rightfully) going to get sued by those businesses. By having it editable by anyone, they avoid that, even if it results in the information being wrong more often.
Proper ways to deal with this would involve employing actual human beings for moderation, for filling in / updating the map data, or for providing support and a verification process to businesses trying to correct their data.
All three of these solutions cost more money than the status quo and are things that Google doesn't really do anywhere, so I doubt this is going to get better anytime soon.
- jamespo 8y agoThey'd get sued? Really?
- scarejunba 8y agoGDPR principle d if the business is a person? (I don't actually know)
- hadrien01 8y agoHow can a business be a person?
- alistairSH 8y agoWhen the court says it is... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood https://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-become-people-excavating-the-legal-evolution https://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-... https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/03/corporations-people-adam-winkler/554852/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/03/corpora...
- hadrien01 8y agoThe parent was talking about GDPR, so presumably Europe.
- alistairSH 8y agoCorporate personhood isn't only an American invention. The German constitution explicitly grants fundamental rights to "artificial persons". The Italian constitution explicitly calls out trade unions as legal persons.
- scarejunba 8y agoWhat if my business is "John Doe, Independent Barrister"?
- jacquesm 8y agoGDPR data protection rules apply to natural persons, aka data subjects. https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/ https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/
- scarejunba 8y agoImagine I am "John Doe, Independent Barrister" and that's my office.