Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Germany court orders Google to remove defamatory autocomplete results

[JURIST] The Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe [official website, in German] on Tuesday ordered [press release, in German] Google [corporate website] to remove defamatory autocomplete results if notified. The plaintiffs, an unidentified company selling nutritional supplements and its founder, claimed when their names were entered on Google's German-language website, autocomplete suggested links to Scientology and fraud which resulted in injury to the plaintiffs' reputations. The court held that although operators of search engines are not regularly required to verify...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/05/germany-court-orders-google-to-remove-defamatory-autocomplete-results.php

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