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>What recourse does Google offer if false, defamatory information is found in their search results? Last I checked, Google was a search engine, an index of web

>What recourse does Google offer if false, defamatory information is found in their search results? Last I checked, Google was a search engine, an index of websites, not a judge of the contents of those websites. >What would stop an organized cyber crime group from creating websites with false, defamatory information about people and blackmailing them for payment in order to take down the false, defamatory information? Libel laws, for one. The correct course of action here, if the claim is not true, would be to sue the publisher of the false information for libel, which would be a guaranteed success, as it is provably false.

LegitShady 3y ago
>Last I checked, Google was a search engine, an index of websites, not a judge of the contents of those websites. Google is not an impartial index of websites. Google manipulates, removes, and selects the links they'd like to display, sometimes differently to each individual searcher. They are a publisher of work either way.
hallucy 3y ago
It seems potentially bad if Google, without any possible consequence, can make money by linking to international content which you can’t ever hope to successfully affect or address.
thesuperbigfrog 3y ago
In the EU the "Right to be Forgotten" parts of GDPR and similar laws would likely apply: "The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay and the controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay" https://gdpr.eu/right-to-be-forgotten/ https://gdpr.eu/right-to-be-forgotten/ However, this case was in Canada and Google does not enforce this GDPR requirement outside the EU: "we don’t apply these delistings to services for countries outside the EU." https://support.google.com/legal/answer/10769224?hl=en https://support.google.com/legal/answer/10769224?hl=en

LegitShady 3y ago

>Last I checked, Google was a search engine, an index of websites, not a judge of the contents of those websites. Google is not an impartial index of websites. Google manipulates, removes, and selects the links they'd like to display, sometimes differently to each individual searcher. They are a publisher of work either way.

hallucy 3y ago

It seems potentially bad if Google, without any possible consequence, can make money by linking to international content which you can’t ever hope to successfully affect or address.

thesuperbigfrog 3y ago

In the EU the "Right to be Forgotten" parts of GDPR and similar laws would likely apply: "The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay and the controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay" https://gdpr.eu/right-to-be-forgotten/ https://gdpr.eu/right-to-be-forgotten/ However, this case was in Canada and Google does not enforce this GDPR requirement outside the EU: "we don’t apply these delistings to services for countries outside the EU." https://support.google.com/legal/answer/10769224?hl=en https://support.google.com/legal/answer/10769224?hl=en