Google to Remove "Revenge Porn" links at victims' Request

Google announced on Friday, that it will let victims of so-called revenge porn ask for the removal of certain webpages from Google’s search results. The company is taking steps to address a persistent problem of the digital age: What to do when people upload nude or sexually explicit pictures of others without their permission.


“We’ve heard many troubling stories of “revenge porn”: an ex-partner seeking to publicly humiliate a person by posting private images of them, or hackers stealing and distributing images from victims’ accounts,” said Google in a blog post. “Our philosophy has always been that Search should reflect the whole web. But revenge porn images are intensely personal and emotionally damaging, and serve only to degrade the victims.”

As the company acknowledges in the blog post, the new policy will not entirely solve the problem of “revenge porn” since Google GOOG -0.01% cannot delete the underlying website from the internet. But it may bring victims some comfort by making the websites harder to find.


Source: Ggoogle