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Cristiano Ghidotti ,

In the coming weeks Google publish a page through which, by completing a form, you can request removal from the search results of all those links that lead to material called revenge porn . In other words, pictures and videos of nude or sexually explicit shared online without permission by former partners, only “revenge”.

The phenomenon is not, unfortunately, a few isolated cases, so that the second group Mountain View over the years are portals whose aim is to gain by the victims of this practice by requiring the payment of a sum for the deletion of content from its archive: sextortion . It should be noted that the initiative fielded by Google has only the goal of remove the links from the SERP (result pages), a bit ‘as it has been by a year for the right to be forgotten .

We acoltato many stories on the issues “revenge porn”: a former partner tries to publicly humiliate a person sharing their private images or hackers steal images from the account of victims and distribute. Some of these can also be used on the sites of “sextortion”, forcing to pay for the removal.

In post signed by Amit Singhal the Californian company does not mention the ways in which will be verified claims received. It should be noted that one of bigg is a decision that only applies to a well-defined scope (that of revenge porn, in fact) and that is not going to affect the rest of the SERP. A policy already implemented for the removal of other personal and sensitive data as the account number or signature.



Our philosophy always been to ensure that the research reflected the entire Web. The images of revenge porn, however, they are very personal and can damage emotionally, finishing only degrade the victims (mostly women). So, from now on, we will honor requests to remove from search Google images of nude or sexually explicit published without permission.