Adelaide woman wins second defamation case against Google over search results – ABC News
An Adelaide woman has won a second defamation case against Google, after a court found the search engine knowingly put derogatory comments about her online despite her winning $100,000 from the company in a similar case in 2015.
South Australia’s Supreme Court found that Janice Duffy, 66, was defamed by the comments in search results published on google.com.au in 2015 and 2016.
However, Google will not have to pay damages for search results on google.com because the judge found it could not be proved beyond the balance of probabilities that they were seen in Australia.
The amount of damages and costs owed has still to be determined.
Dr Duffy won her first case against Google in October 2015, with a judge ruling that the tech company was liable for defamatory material about her that appeared in its search results from a second American website called Ripoff Report.
The former researcher for SA Health took Google to court a second time a year later over search results that appeared…
The post Adelaide woman wins second defamation case against Google over search results – ABC News first appeared on SEO, Marketing and Social News | OneSEOCompany.com.
source: https://news.oneseocompany.com/2023/02/03/adelaide-woman-wins-second-defamation-case-against-google-over-search-results-abc-news_2023020340216.html
Your content is great. However, if any of the content contained herein violates any rights of yours, including those of copyright, please contact us immediately by e-mail at media[@]kissrpr.com.