<story><title>Google: Please Stop Telling Lies About Me</title><url>https://ehudreiter.com/2019/01/21/google-lies-about-me/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jnbiche</author><text>Seeing as how the author was indeed born in Israel, I figured at first that it was unreasonable to complain, since like or or not he was probably an Israeli citizen.&lt;p&gt;However, looking into Israeli citizenship law, I learned that Israel does &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; have birthright citizenship. So he was not automatically a citizen despite being born there. Had his parents been Israelis (and that doesn&amp;#x27;t appear to be the case), he would be Israeli.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s true that he&amp;#x27;s likely &lt;i&gt;eligible&lt;/i&gt; to claim Israeli citizenship through the law of return. But being eligible for Israeli citizenship isn&amp;#x27;t the same as having it.&lt;p&gt;So I do understand the annoyance. It&amp;#x27;s not just a technicality--he actually doesn&amp;#x27;t have Israeli citizenship. Google&amp;#x27;s algorithm appears to assume all countries practice birthright citizenship like the US (when many, probably most, do not).</text></comment>
<story><title>Google: Please Stop Telling Lies About Me</title><url>https://ehudreiter.com/2019/01/21/google-lies-about-me/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robbrown451</author><text>I think it is far less an issue of faulty AI and more an issue of Google ignoring requests to change information about someone when that person notifies them that it is incorrect.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s one thing to show things in search results, a very different thing to have a little box saying &amp;quot;We Google have deduced that this is true.&amp;quot; They should take more responsibility.&lt;p&gt;In my opinion they should be required to do something about it. It is very similar to how you can tell google your privacy is invaded by something on Google Maps and they will fix it (with blurring, in that case).</text></comment>