A suit filed in Tokyo District Court on Friday claims the auto-complete function of Google's search engine violates the plaintiff's privacy, The Daily Yomiuri reports. The plaintiff claims that typing his name into the search box brings up unsavory results. He is seeking damages and changes so the function no longer brings up such results.
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