A federal court in Germany has told Google that it must remove offensive or defamatory suggestions from its autocomplete function when it receives a complaint. The case that prompted the ruling started with a German businessman who, upon culling through Google.de, found that he was associated with scientology and fraud. The court said that a person’s privacy is violated when Google’s autocomplete function, which offers suggestions on not-yet-completed search terms, links said person to something that isn’t true.
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German Court Orders Google to Clean Up Autocomplete
Posted by: David Vranicar May 15, 2013 09:09 AMA federal court in Germany has told Google that it must remove offensive or defamatory suggestions from its autocomplete function when it receives a complaint. The case that prompted the ruling started with a German businessman who, upon culling through Google.de, found that he was associated with scientology and fraud. The court said that a person’s privacy is violated when Google’s autocomplete function, which offers suggestions on not-yet-completed search terms, links said person to something that isn’t true.