Google Ordered to Kill Autocomplete Results for One Man

[COLGeek]

Reality is stranger than fiction.

 

[osaeed88]

Google should have an online form, in which you fill to opt out your personal information from autocomplete or perhaps anything from the search results.

 

[lathe26]

Santorum.

 

[doorspawn]

you're ...

 

[A Bad Day]

[citation][nom]eiskrystal[/nom]Japanese businesses need to get their act together if they are firing employees for crimes not committed based on a dodgy websearch. Otherwise they will simply be sued into administration. Which is what this guy should have done as well.[/citation]

Many businesses, including ones the US do the same blunder. Act twice, check none.

 

[dizzy_davidh]

That is an intersting story but what I took from it most of all was what a petty, idiotic employment system they must have in Japan if some false google autocomplete results can be used to dismiss an employee and also I have the unanswered question ~ why did the unnamed person not sue the ass off their employer rather than take google to court?!?!

Can you imagine someone letting their employer do that to them in a western country, erm, no!

 

[Guest]

I just wish I was popular enough to have a showing on Google autocomplete 🙁

 

[doorspawn]

"when you're name" is incorrect
I get -1'd for pointing it out? or being too obscure?

 

[doorspawn]

"when you're name" is incorrect.
Did I get -1'd for pointing it out, or for being too obscure?

 

[kevinf4ce]

Tom's article writers are sucking more and more.

 

[smithereen]

But they won't fix Santorum's "google problem." K.