Google Images
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Date launched | July 2001 |
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Type of site | Web search engine |
Available in | Multilingual (~100) |
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About Google Images
Google Images is a search service owned by Google that allows users to search the World Wide Web for image content. It was introduced on July 12, 2001 due to a demand for pictures of Jennifer Lopez's green Versace dress that the regular Google search couldn't handle.
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Google faces winged monkeys privacy protest
Google has angered a privacy expert, by repeatedly identifying him as a "dwarf character actor" famous for playing a winged monkey in The Wizard of Oz.
Pat Walshe told Bbc News that he had solved the Problem twice, only to discover, last week, had it happen again.
The Problem relates to the photo to run next to the text from another source about a Dead American who had the same name.
He now wants watchdogs a formal complaint with privacy. Google has, Once Again , the error will be fixed.
Personal contactsA day after the Bbc News posed the question, Mr Walshe's photo has been removed from the "knowledge box" near The Top of the Google Search results.
The US company has not explained or apologized for the error.
But a spokeswoman said she did not believe that the correction has been made, as a result of Bbc News Intervention .
Mr Walshe said he was "shocked" to discover that he had incorrectly been identified, such as a dead actorMr Walshe said that he had first highlighted the problem a few years ago, and Then Again in February of this year, after which he was hoping that the Problem solved was good.
It was only when he performed discussed The Matter at a conference in Berlin and one of the other participants in that do a Google Search , he realized one of his profile pictures had, in connection to an independent Wikipedia entry.
"Everyone felt it was funny," he said.
"But what if the text was a biography, that someone had committed a terrible crime?
"could have consequences for me in an age of artificial intelligence-driven decision-making, for example. "
Google provides a way for users to "suggest changes" But Mr Walshe said he had to ultimately resort to personal contacts to have The Matter dealt with in The Past .
'Simple'for The First Time , that he hired a lawyer, he knew at Google. The second time, that he got by E-Mail, Google's chief executive, directly - and if there is no response, raised the issue at a major conference of the society.
As a former privacy Director in the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA), Mr. Walshe said that he had the means to ensure that he was not ignored, But also others in a similar situation, maybe not.
"I'm going to the Ombudsman to make a formal complaint to both the ICO [Information Commissioner's Office] and to the privacy of Ireland, because there the people can be very clear that a much simpler process by which you can exercise your Rights . , "he said.
An American author told the BBC that he has confronted problems of its own.
Ernest Dempsey 's case, the Knowledge Box is showing his picture and the pictures of the books he has written, But the biography of a Pakistani Writer .
Mr Demspey said he had tried In Vain to Fix Google the error"It was an incredibly annoying process to try to Fix the Google, the bio with my image," he explained.
"The mix-up is another Writer who used my name as his Pseudonym, which is fine. But I get E-Mails every month about how I went from Pakistan to America to become a Writer .
"Maybe it's not cost me money, maybe. But Either Way , it is frustrating. "
Google posted it had declared In July , as people and organizations relevant feedback" about errors could offer".
"If we are an image or a Google-images-results-preview of the is shown that in a knowledge panel exactly represent the person, place, or thing. you can Fix the error," it says.
privacy, google
Source of news: bbc.com