Google has made two updates to its prohibited and restricted content material coverage for Google Maps user-contributed content material. The impacted sections are the faux engagement and private data sections. Here’s what was added.
Below the faux engagement part, Google added this bullet:
- Content material that has been posted utilizing an emulator or different gadget tampering service, modified working system, or different technique to imitate real engagement, manipulate sensor information or outcomes, or in any other case thwart or confuse regular operations.
Google would not need you to make use of emulators or different tampering gadgets to faux engagement.
The non-public data part was fully revamped. Beforehand it learn:
- We don’t permit content material that comprises non-public or confidential data similar to bank card particulars, medical information, or authorities–issued identification—whether or not yours or another person’s.
Here’s a screenshot of what was added:
Now it’s rather more fleshed out and reads:
Don’t distribute or publish private data with out consent. Private data is outlined as data that applies to a dwelling identifiable individual and disclosure may lead to danger of hurt whether it is compromised or misused. This contains:
- Content material which comprises private data of one other posted with out their consent similar to: full/final identify, their face in {a photograph} or a video, or different data which has been reported as having been posted with out consent.
We do permit retailers to publish contact data associated to their enterprise together with telephone, e-mail, or social media handles.
We additionally permit a person’s full identify whether it is a part of the generally recognized or marketed enterprise entity or if they’re a public-facing skilled conducting enterprise beneath their identify.
For those who consider your private data has been posted with out your consent, please comply with these directions to flag the overview.
Here’s a screenshot of what was added:
These had been the modifications to those insurance policies.
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