A Canadian businessman sued Google for sharing a link that falsely accused him of paedophilia.
The Canadian businessman said his life and business have suffered significantly due to the defamatory post circulated by Google's search engineGoogle has been ordered to pay a prominent Canadian businessman half-a-million dollars for failing to remove a defamatory search result of his name.
"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. He said he first discovered the post in 2007 after searching his own name. Since then, he said potential clients have backed out of deals because of the post.
The post then resurfaced again in 2015. The man wrote to Google again asking the company to remove it, but it refused to do so. The plaintiff is said to be a lawyer and businessman who helped campaign for a former prime minister of Canada, and who once assisted in a high-profile US Senate inquiry.
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