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Adelaide woman receives settlement after 12-year battle with Google (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by sqgl@beehaw.org to c/news@aussie.zone
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Self-represented! (admittedly only on the home stretch when she ran out of money to pay lawyers)

On ABC radio 702 with Josh Szeps today she said that the dodgy aggregator (of reviews) web site charges ten of thousands of dollars to remove defamatory info (and they won't even do it if you don't live in USA - I don't get that part).

Google don't care to blacklist it even after she won her first case. Even after this second win/settlement and 10,000 complaints it still is not blacklisted.

Australia's first eSafety commissioner, Alastair MacGibbon, was also interviewed and says privacy laws in Europe ("the rIght to be forgotten") mean she could have just insisted she be removed from the defamatory listing and not gone to court.

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[โ€“] stifle867@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Now she just waits for Google to do the same thing again and repeat ad infinitum for an unlimited money hack ๐Ÿ˜† In all seriousness it's good to see other countries actually being able to hold Google somewhat accountable.

[โ€“] sqgl@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

12 years fighting, lost her job over it, wasn't guaranteed a win. Mind you she said on the radio that it was a reasonable settlement amount (but maybe such a "Calderbank Offer" requires her to call it reasonable).

[โ€“] stifle867@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

I understand and am aware of the tremendous human cost she had to pay.