A judgment will be given to pay compensation of 10 million yen as Google displays a link to a site that slander individuals

ByAnthony Ryan

A South Australian Supreme Court in Adelaide, a city in the south of Australia, in a lawsuit brought by an Australian woman as a link to a website slandering himself on a search results page displayed by Google, was issued against Google He ordered to pay compensation of 11,500 Australian dollars (about 10 million yen).

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This case was the thing caused by Dr. Janis Duffy, a researcher at the South Australian Health Department. Mr. Duffy had filed a civil action against Google in 2011.


The beginning of the matter, Mr. Duffy wrote the content slandering himselfRipoff ReportAnd the excerpt of the content was displayed on Google's search result screen. Mr. Duffy asked Google to hide the link in September 2009, but Google said it refused it. In response to this deal, Mr. Duffy was filing a civil action against Google in 2011.

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The Ripoff Report is a site that anyone can post on people who take criminal acts or dishonest behavior, but the reliability of contribution content is not guaranteed at all. It also features that it has a concept called "Non-removal policy".

Mr. Duffy also said that "her honor was hurt" about her name also being displayed in the "auto complete" feature where candidates for search words are displayed on Google's search screen. In addition, Google initially responded to refuse to hide the link, but after alleging this case, it was changed to not display links and excerpt sentences to the site.

In response to this complaint against Google, Google denied that the behavior was dishonest, claimed that the content displayed was not malicious, and insisted on its legitimacy, but appealed in a court held in October 2015 Was rejected and it was judged that the company had damaged Mr. Duffy's honor.

After this judgment, we are ordered payment of this reparation. Compensation imposed on Google is $ 115,000 (approximately 10 million yen) plus 15,000 Australian dollars as interest on 100,000 Australian dollars as compensation for damages, and Google will pay 2016 It is ordered to pay by January 11th.

Mr. Duffy raised a voice of joy in this result, "It was recognized that my honor was hurt.I was a long battle but it is not over yet.It is not the end of appeal trial It will be done, but I will face it. "