Google to pay Canadian businessman for destructive search result – BBC
By Nadine Yousif
BBC News, Toronto
Google has been ordered to pay a prominent Canadian businessman half-a-million dollars for failing to remove a defamatory search result of his name.
The man, whose identity is under a publication ban, sued Google for sharing a link to a post that falsely accused him of being a paedophile.
The plaintiff claimed his life and business suffered significantly as a result.
Google has refused to comment on the case.
In a ruling issued late last month, a judge in the Canadian province of Quebec ordered the technology company to pay C$500,000 ($371,652; 298,200) in damages to the businessman, saying his life had become a “walking nightmare” due to the defamatory post.
“Like Franz Kafka’s character, Josef K. in The Trial, the Plaintiff woke up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit,” Judge Azimuddin Hussain wrote in his ruling.
“In the Plaintiff’s case, he was accused of already having been convicted of the crime and a particularly…
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