Google introducing tool for under-18s to remove images of them from search

Re:Google introducing tool for under-18s to remove images of... by Retric on Thursday August 19, 2021 @12:20PM (#28235774)

There are many ways your photo can be made public that have nothing to do with either of those. For example a company you worked for might publish a photo of you without asking you etc.

What’s more interesting is how inaccurate a lot of this data is. Spokeo for example seems to think I am related to someone because they share a last name and we lived in the same apartment building at some point. Google’s approach of simply collecting third party information simply isn’t reliable.

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Re:Google introducing tool for under-18s to remove images of... by ehsankia on Thursday August 19, 2021 @12:41PM (#28236044)

So should Google be the moderator of the entire WWW and resolve every single dispute on any websites posting information about someone who doesn't want their information there? Or should no one ever have their website searchable because a small handful of websites post content which 100% of the people in the content don't agree with? And what if I post about someone who assaulted me, and the criminal wants my content off my website? These are not easy problems and "let's throw it all out" doesn't seem like a solution.

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Re:Google introducing tool for under-18s to remove images of... by Retric on Thursday August 19, 2021 @01:10PM (#28236458)

Publishing accurate information is already difficult and their trying to automated it. Having Google post your information is concerning, having them potentially confuse the victim with the perpetrators is a whole other issue.

Which isn’t a problem for Google because their standards seem to be good enough to target advertising, but it is a problem for everyone else.

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