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 ghaff on Thursday August 19, 2021 @01:33PM (#28236786)

That's sort of already the case. $25 or so can give you access to a lot more information than you'll get from a casual Google. A lot of this used to be more generally available but I think it's mostly behind paywalls at this point which I don't think is entirely a bad thing.

But people can reasonably disagree on what should be readily available to everyone and what should take some more effort/money.

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Re:Google introducing tool for under-18s to remove images of... by Sanzig on Thursday August 19, 2021 @01:37PM (#28236832)

My suggestion is to put the financial barrier at the government-industry interface, not at the industry-consumer interface. Right now a lot of brokers slurp up huge amounts of information from freely-available but generally not indexed public government databases (land title registries, voter rolls, etc) and collate them. They then charge fees to consumers for access.

Requiring anyone who wants a government record to pay a small fee to the government for each record would cut that business model off at the knees.

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