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Google to Crack Down on "Revenge Porn"
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eesh
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Date: June 20, 2015 11:56AM
http://www.cnet.com/news/google-to-shut-the-door-on-revenge-porn/
Sexually explicit images shared without the subject's consent will soon start vanishing from Google's search results.
The new policy, which will go into effect in the coming weeks, is intended to combat a practice known as "revenge porn," a dark side of the ease with which information can be shared across the wide-open terrain of the Internet and especially on social media.
"Revenge porn images are intensely personal and emotionally damaging, and serve only to degrade the victims--predominantly women," Google said in blog post Friday. "So going forward, we'll honor requests from people to remove nude or sexually explicit images shared without their consent from Google Search results."
Typically, the revealing images and personal information have been posted online by angry former lovers looking to cause pain and suffering, whether simply through exposure or -- worse -- as an incitement to violence. It isn't simply that the images are posted online but that they get shared, and as they appear in more places, can rise up the ranks of search results.
The new policy at Google and other sites is a big step, but fighting any form of online harassment is an uphill battle. In the absence of strict legal regulations, companies, organizations and even lawyers have sprung up to help overwhelmed victims of revenge porn. Many services send takedown demands to websites.
Sexually explicit images shared without the subject's consent will soon start vanishing from Google's search results.
The new policy, which will go into effect in the coming weeks, is intended to combat a practice known as "revenge porn," a dark side of the ease with which information can be shared across the wide-open terrain of the Internet and especially on social media.
"Revenge porn images are intensely personal and emotionally damaging, and serve only to degrade the victims--predominantly women," Google said in blog post Friday. "So going forward, we'll honor requests from people to remove nude or sexually explicit images shared without their consent from Google Search results."
Typically, the revealing images and personal information have been posted online by angry former lovers looking to cause pain and suffering, whether simply through exposure or -- worse -- as an incitement to violence. It isn't simply that the images are posted online but that they get shared, and as they appear in more places, can rise up the ranks of search results.
The new policy at Google and other sites is a big step, but fighting any form of online harassment is an uphill battle. In the absence of strict legal regulations, companies, organizations and even lawyers have sprung up to help overwhelmed victims of revenge porn. Many services send takedown demands to websites.
Re: Google to Crack Down on "Revenge Porn"
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Jail time hanging over your head
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Date: June 24, 2015 02:09PM
Re: Google to Crack Down on "Revenge Porn"
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love it
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Date: June 24, 2015 11:51PM
smh