Google and Revenge Porn
http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2015/06/revenge-porn-and-search.html?m=1
Our philosophy has always been that Search should reflect the
whole web. But revenge porn images are intensely personal and
emotionally damaging, and serve only to degrade the
victims--predominantly women. So going forward, we'll honor
requests from people to remove nude or sexually explicit images
shared without their consent from Google Search results. This is
a narrow and limited policy, similar to how we treat removal
requests for other highly sensitive personal information, such as
bank account numbers and signatures, that may surface in our
search results.
- - -
I support Google's policy to remove revenge porn. And since I've
already seen some media attempting to claim this is the same as "Right
To Be Forgotten" -- it clearly is NOT. As Amit notes in his post, this
is a very narrow policy that falls into the same category as other
specifically personal information -- like private financial data --
that may surface in search results and has long been subject to
removal requests. This does not apply to articles, commentaries,
criticisms, opinions, or other third party links that are the target
of the awful RTBF laws.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
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