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Long time ago there was post on HN from guy who was harassed online. Someone pretended to be him and created fake blog, twitter account, social profiles etc.. I
by jkot 12y ago
Long time ago there was post on HN from guy who was harassed online. Someone pretended to be him and created fake blog, twitter account, social profiles etc.. It had serious impact on his life / job / family.
Every other company removed this fake profiles within days (twitter, facebook, yahooo...). Only Google did not bothered to answer for weeks. Last time I checked he was trying to shutdown blog on some copyright technicality.
Perhaps this law would not be necessary, if google would cooperate as other companies.
- icehawk219 12y agoTo me this is the other side of the double-edged sword that not many people take time to consider. It's easy to say that the "right to be forgotten" will be used, and abused, by people trying to bury their sordid past in the interests of trying to revise history. And that's absolutely true, it definitely will be. But there's also cases like this where you're trying to undo what someone else did with malicious intent. I don't have a good answer for how to balance those two things because even if you add some sort of "malicious intent" clause all that would do is cause people to start to cry "libel!" when they wanted stuff taken down.
- Klathmon 12y agoNow when you say removed the profiles, do you mean removed links to it, or removed the actual profile. I think twitter should have a requirement to remove a false account impersonating me, but i think Google (or any other search engine) shouldn't be required to remove references to that profile. Requiring search engines to remove references to "offending" material seems like forcing libraries to hide certain books because they are illegal.
- jkot 12y agoI meant to remove offending profile, not just links. Impersonation with malicious intent is probably crime in most countries.