Photo Illustration: Chukrut Budrul/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Google must delete search results about people in Europe if they can prove that the information is clearly incorrect, the EU’s highest court said on Thursday. Driving the news: The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that search engines must “dereference information found in the referenced content where the person requesting dereferencing proves that such information is manifestly inaccurate.” Context: A… Source link
Read More »Google must remove ‘manifestly inaccurate’ data, EU top court says
LUXEMBOURG, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Alphabet unit Google (GOOGL.O) must remove data from online search results if users can prove it is inaccurate, Europe’s top court said on Thursday. Free speech advocates and supporters of privacy rights have clashed in recent years over people’s ‘right to be forgotten’ online, meaning that they should be able to remove their digital traces from the Internet. The case before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) concerned two executives from a group of… Source link
Read More »Google Explains How AI Helps It Fix Inaccurate Business Hours
How does Google Maps know when a particular business is open? It turns out that AI plays a pretty important part in making sure Google can provide accurate information to its users. In response to the constantly fluctuating hours of operation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the company says it developed a machine learning model “that automatically identifies if business hours are likely wrong, then instantly updates them with AI-generated prediction.” This model relies on the Popular Times… Source link
Read More »Russia tells Google to restrict ads it says contain inaccurate information on casualties
The logo of Russia’s state communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, is reflected in a laptop screen showing Google start page, in this picture illustration taken May 27, 2021. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/Illustration Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register MOSCOW, Feb 28 (Reuters) – Russia on Monday ordered Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google to immediately restrict access to information posted as part of Google Ads that it said contained inaccurate information about casualties… Source link
Read More »Food robot story inaccurate, retraction issued
A food delivery robot on campus. Credit: Mackenzie Shanklin | Photo Editor The Lantern has retracted a story about campus robots delivering food to students cold, which was published to the website Monday. We learned the reporter fabricated and falsified information and quotes in this story. This type of inaccuracy does not represent The Lantern, and the story was removed as a result. The retracted story stated the food robots were designed to… Source link
Read More »Google Taking Action Against Sites With Inaccurate Pricing
Google will soon start to take action against sites that show a different price at checkout than the one provided through Google Merchant Center. It’s Google Merchant Center policy for retailers to maintain consistency between prices provided to Google and prices offered to customers. Google’s price enforcement efforts previously involved reviewing the accuracy between a retailer’s Merchant Center product data and their landing pages. Until now Google has not checked whether the pricing… Source link
Read More »Tanya Roberts has died after early, inaccurate death announcement
Tanya Roberts — the Bond girl and That ‘70s Show actress who was mistakenly reported dead on Sunday — has in fact died. “With a heavy heart I can confirm the death of Tanya Roberts (age 65) last night on Jan. 4, 2021 around 9:30 p.m. PT at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles,” her publicist, Mike Pingel, of Rainbow PR said in a statement to Yahoo Entertainment on Tuesday. “Her 18-year domestic partner Lance O’Brien received the phone call from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center… Source link
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