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| Google will remove nude and sexually explicit images posted in revenge. Photo: AP |
The
web company will honour requests to take down nude or sexually explicit
images shared from search results, Amit Singhal, senior vice president
of Google Search, wrote in a blog post on Friday. An online form will be
soon be available to submit removal requests, he said.
"Revenge-porn
images are intensely personal and emotionally damaging, and serve only
to degrade the victims - predominantly women," Singhal wrote. "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. Some
images even end up on sextortion sites that force people to pay to have
their images removed."
While Google generally
prefers to make most digital content available via its search engine, it
does take steps to ensure that certain sensitive personal information
is blocked. The new revenge-porn blocking policy is similar to what
Google already does with bank-account numbers and signatures, according
to Singhal.
Even though embarrassing images won't be removed from
the websites, which are controlled by their owners, Google said that
removing revenge-porn results should help.
"We hope that honouring people's requests to remove such imagery from our search results can help," Singhal said.
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