China”s largest search engine, Baidu fined for providing access to woman’s porn pics
July 3rd, 2010 - 6:01 pm ICT by ANIBeijing, July 3 (ANI): The Jing’an district People’s Court in Shanghai has fined China’s most popular search engine, Baidu, for providing access to pornographic pictures of a woman surnamed Yin.
According to The China Daily, the court said that the search engine violated the rights of the girl’s reputation and ordered it to cut off links with websites that contained her sexual photos and personal details.
Baidu was ordered to post a three-day declaration of apology and fined 22,000 Yuan as damage and compensation for emotional distress.
The 26-year-old woman Yin, a former student of Shanghai Maritime University, found that her photos were illegally uploaded in 2009 by her college boyfriend, which was later reprinted by blogs, forums, and other web portals, who named it ‘maritime scandal’.
The paper also stated that the website of a local newspaper-Metro Express had earlier claimed that the links which defamed Yin had been removed, but the explicit pictures and personal details including name, age, phone number and address, remained there.
After being sued for invasion of privacy, Baidu defended itself, saying it provided content retrieval, which automatically generated links and they didn’t mean it intentionally. (ANI)
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