Google India deleted 4,000 bad content in May 2022

In accor­dance with the Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­o­gy Rules, 2021, in May tech giant Google India removed near­ly four lakh of mali­cious con­tent through an auto­mat­ed detec­tion process. The com­pa­ny said it received 25,694 com­plaints from indi­vid­ual users in India through cer­tain mech­a­nisms dur­ing the month-long report­ing period.

“These com­plaints relate to third-par­ty con­tent that is believed to vio­late local laws or pri­va­cy rights on Google’s SSMI plat­forms,” ​​the com­pa­ny said in the report.

“The com­plaints received cov­er var­i­ous cat­e­gories. Some requests may claim infringe­ment of intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty rights, while oth­ers claim vio­la­tion of local laws that pro­hib­it types of con­tent on grounds such as defama­tion,” she added.

Over 24,000 of these com­plaints con­cerned copy­right infringe­ment, fol­lowed by trade­mark infringe­ment (433) and oth­er legal issues (257).

The tech giant removed 62,673 pieces of con­tent that vio­lat­ed the Com­mu­ni­ty Guide­lines in response to user complaints.

Google men­tioned that they care­ful­ly review com­plaints about con­tent on their plat­forms when they receive complaints.