In May 2013, the German Federal Court of Justice stated that Google's predictions within the autocomplete function of its web search engine can violate the right of personality.
[4] Source:[5] A stock corporation, which sold food supplements and cosmetics online, and its chairman filed an action for an injunction and financial compensation against Google based on a violation of their right of personality.
If users typed the full name of the chairman into the search engine in May 2010 the autocomplete function showed the predictions "Betrug" (fraud) or "Scientology".
[33] By taking legal actions against Google, Bettina Wulff probably also caused a so-called "Streisand effect" because many people learned about the predictions by the created media attention for the first time.
[34] In France, in 2010, the Superior Court of Paris ordered Google to cease suggesting certain predictions, including "rapist", "satanist", "rape", and "prison", to Internet users who search for a man's name.
[38] Furthermore, in 2012, the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia held Google liable for defamation by wrongly linking a private person to crimes he in fact was a victim of and awarded $200,000 in damages.
[39][40] Moreover, in 2013, the Tokyo District Court in Japan also ordered Google to modify its predictions and pay 300,000 yen ($3,100) as damages to a man which was linked to crimes he did not commit.
In another case, French human rights organisations (including SOS Racisme) sued Google for adding the word "juif" (Jewish) to the names of celebrities within its predictions.