WF-GMGJ7F
Google Instant's Allegedly 'Anti-Semitic' Results Lead To Lawsuit In France
The organizations SOS Racisme, Union of Jewish Students of France, Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Among Peoples are suing Google due to its autocomplete software suggesting "jewish" when the names of certain public figures were searched on the platform.
- Date it happened
- 2012-01-05
- Organisation involved
- Product, system or model
- "Google Instant autocomplete feature "predicts and displays search queries based on other users' search activities and the contents of web pages indexed by Google.""
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