{"id":8826,"date":"2013-05-17T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8826"},"modified":"2013-05-17T07:50:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T11:50:30","slug":"the-geopolitics-of-autocomplete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-geopolitics-of-autocomplete\/","title":{"rendered":"The Geopolitics Of Autocomplete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/051713_1145_TheGeopolit1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Google is in legal trouble for the suggestions offered by auto-complete writes Marya Hannun:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A German court has ruled in favour of an (unnamed) businessman who was upset that Google would suggest adding &#8220;fraud&#8221; after people typed in his name<\/li>\n<li>This is far from the first time. Guy Hingston, an Australian who sued because Google auto-complete would suggest &#8220;bankrupt&#8221; for his name ended up making the problem worse since the resulting press coverage made it even more likely that his name would be linked to the word &#8216;bankrupt&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not just individuals who are upset with Google&#8217;s auto-complete. A Jewish group sued Google for linking Judaism with unsavoury figures through searches such as &#8220;is Rupert Murdoch Jewish&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Google, for its part, points out that the auto-complete searches are drawn from what people type into its box. It&#8217;s not Google who is defaming these individuals and groups, it&#8217;s the wider populace.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about other cases of Google being sued over auto-complete, the implications the German ruling may have, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2013\/05\/15\/the_geopolitics_of_googles_autocomplete\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2013\/05\/15\/the_geopolitics_of_googles_autocomplete\">Foreign Policy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is in legal trouble for the suggestions offered by auto-complete writes Marya Hannun: A German court has ruled in favour of an (unnamed) businessman who was upset that Google would suggest adding &#8220;fraud&#8221; after people typed in his name This is far from the first time. Guy Hingston, an Australian who sued because Google [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/051713_1145_TheGeopolit1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8826"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8832,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8826\/revisions\/8832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}