Some comeuppance for Google from France, where a court has ruled that the search engine can’t bring up suggestions that are derogatory toward someone who has been convicted of an offense, until the conviction is final:
“Apparently, in France you can’t algorithmically link a convicted sex offender with the term rape, until all of his appeals have been exhausted.
The Telegraph reports that a French man who has been convicted of the “corruption of a minor” found that when he typed his name into the search engine, suggested terms such as “rape”, “rapist”, and “satanist” automatically popped up as well.
But since he is currently appealing his conviction–and French law declares individuals innocent until all appeals are exhausted–the Superior Court of Paris found Google guilty of publicly slandering the man.”