Google Ordered to Kill Autocomplete Results for One Man / High School Student Expelled for Cursing in Tweet-gctid50329

[Ajamu]

Google Ordered to Kill Autocomplete Results for One Man

High School Student Expelled for Cursing in Tweet

                             6:30 AM -  March 27, 2012              -              By                Jane McEntegart              -              Source : ComputerWorld            

One  man in Japan has been successful in his bid to have certain words  normally associated with his name deleted from Google's autocomplete  feature.

                       

 Many people don't give Google's autocomplete feature the time of day.   It's just something that's there all the time and is sometimes helpful,  sometimes irrelevant. Still, not everyone is totally apathetic about  autocomplete. Say, for example, it's putting something unfavorable on  the screen when you're name is entered into Google?

 One man in Japan experienced just that. According to ComputerWorld,  this unnamed Japanese man recently went to the Tokyo District Court to  demand that Google suspend the autocomplete feature because it was an  invasion of his privacy. The man's lawyer says his client took action  once he realized that autocomplete was filling in crimes when his name  was entered.

 Though the man insists he knows nothing about these crimes, his  lawyer says it's likely that Google linked his name to these terms  because of an inaccurate story that spread across various sites and was   subsequently indexed by Google. The Japanese man says these  autocomplete suggestions cost him his job several years ago and other  companies that have rescinded job offers have said that the search  results were a factor.

 Google was ordered to comply the request to delete the offending autocomplete results associated with the man's name.

================================

High School Student Expelled for Cursing in Tweet

                             6:00 AM -  March 28, 2012              -              By                Jane McEntegart              -              Source : INC            
           
         A high school student from Indiana has been expelled for using profanity on Twitter.
                       

 Considering the things some kids (or even just some people) get up to   these days, swearing isn't exactly a heinous crime. Sure, there's a  time and a place, and school is neither of those, but is it a crime  worthy of expulsion?

 One teenager in Indiana was recently expelled from school for using a   certain four letter word on Twitter. Austin Carroll posted the  following from his Twitter page.

"F*** is one of those f***ing words you can f***ing put anywhere in a f***ing sentence and it still f***ing make sense."
 
Not exactly Yeats, but not surprising when you consider the  poster is a teenage boy. Carroll was forced to face serious  consequences at school. Though it was his personal account and Austin  claims the message was sent while he was at home, the school says  otherwise. Indiana NewsCenter writes that the principal of Garrett High  School said their system tracks all the tweets on Twitter when a  student logs in, so "even if he did tweet it from home their system  could have recognized it when he logged in again at school."

 Austin's mother said that while she didn't approve of the tweet, she  thought a suspension would have been a more appropriate punishment. Her   son is now attending another school but is said to be disappointed that  he will miss out on the last three months of his senior year and the  events (such as prom) that go along with them. Meanwhile, students at  his now former high school are apparently unhappy with the revelation  that the school is tracking their tweets. INC reports that police had  to be called on Friday as students threatened to protest.

Read the full story here.