Germany tells Google to tidy up auto-complete

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BBC News - Germany tells Google to tidy up auto-complete

I just found this interesting. So I figured why not post it.

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Google must now remove defamatory word combinations when told about them,
said the court.
A person's privacy would be violated if the associations conjured up by
auto-complete were untrue, the federal court said in a statement about the ruling.
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    In the past, Google has defended itself by arguing that it has no control over the combinations of words that auto-complete suggests. Instead, it said, these were automatically generated by the frequency with which other people were looking for such keywords.

    Nice to know.
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