AndreaVass

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by AndreaVass 5y ago
Your comment was brought to my attention last night. I had not seen it before nor had the time to read through all of these comments. Are you suggesting that I did not send feedback through the appropriate channels? I have dozens of email e
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by AndreaVass 5y ago
This is the argument that needs to take place. Over the past several years, I was forced to understand what “publish” actually means in legal terms. Spoke with many lawyers. In the beginning, I was surprised to hear a lawyer refer to send
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by AndreaVass 5y ago
According to Google, “claiming” the knowledge panel requires that I provide them with a government issued ID, a selfie and screenshots of me logging into several social media accounts that I manage. And after I hand over that information to
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by AndreaVass 5y ago
Thank you (and others) for taking the time to write suggestions but I’m more concerned with ethics and the law. Google doesn’t have the right to publish the photo of the wrong person next to my book and I hope they don’t do it again.
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by AndreaVass 5y ago
Thanks for your kind words but I just wanted to say that Google has to abide by the same rules as others who “publish” information. For example, The New York Times cannot publish the wrong photo of a person inside of an article, then deman
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by AndreaVass 5y ago
I would love to take legal action if I could find a brave attorney. During my consultations with attorneys, they began speaking in half-words and unfinished sentences as soon as I said my dispute was with Google. I was willing to file the
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by AndreaVass 5y ago
They have finally removed the photo this morning. Thanks to all who reported it. On my Facebook page, I have the screenshots of all the incorrect images that they placed in the knowledge panel.
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by AndreaVass 5y ago
All I wanted was for them to stop placing the wrong images alongside my book, which they have finally done this morning thanks to Hacker News. Hopefully, the images won’t come back. Btw, there are authors who have knowledge panels with no i
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by AndreaVass 5y ago
Update: As of 10 am Chicago time, the problem has been fixed. Thank you guys so much for your comments!
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by AndreaVass 5y ago
According to a lawyer, I could sue for “false light invasion of privacy.” Unfortunately, the pastor doesn’t live in a state where that tort is recognized. In any case, Google just fixed the knowledge panel-so thank you guys so very much for
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Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful way – what can I do?
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