The organizations SOS Racisme, Union of Jewish Students of France, Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Among Peoples are suing Google due to its autocomplete software suggesting "jewish" when the names of certain public figures were searched on the platform. The suggestions, powered by Google Instant, are supposed to "reflect the diversity of content on the web" according to Google, and therefore have a narrow set of removal policies. The lawsuit claims "the creation of what is probably the biggest Jewish file in history" and notes an "ethnic file" is outlawed by French law.

The organizations SOS Racisme, Union of Jewish Students of France, Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Among Peoples are suing Google due to its autocomplete software suggesting "jewish" when the names of certain public figures were searched on the platform.

Negligible

Religion

Harm to social or political systems

Google Instant software that provides suggestions as users enter information into the Google search bar

Google

Information and communication

Perception, Cognition, Action

Google Instant

search suggestions

Google, SOS Racisme, Union of Jewish Students of France, Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Among Peoples

Google

2012-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

2012-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

Unclear/unknown

Accident

No

French law against compilation of "ethnic files"

user searches