In the thorny “French Bukkake” case, still under investigation, the protagonists are known. On the one hand, seventeen men who, between 2013 and 2019, participated in the production and distribution of several hundred pornographic videos of incredible violence, which earned them indictments for “gang rape », “organized gang trafficking in human beings” and “aggravated pimping”. On the other, around forty of their victims. Women manipulated, assaulted and raped, whose torments were broadcast online on pornographic sites.
But recently, the case has an additional party: Google. The American technology giant, more precisely its Californian entity Google LLC, was sentenced on Wednesday November 6 by the French courts, as part of legal proceedings begun in 2023 and separate from the criminal aspect of the case. Google was, in fact, sued by one of the victims of the “French Bukkake” (“FB”) network. She criticized the American firm for indexing, on its search engine, websites hosting videos of the rapes she suffered during the filming of pornographic videos labeled FB.
The complainant, however, went out of her way to obtain their delisting. In particular, she claims to have completed on several occasions the reporting form made available by Google, which allows her to group together requests from its users concerning the deindexing of certain content.
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But for four years, she has only managed to get answers “random”. “Some requests are refused without justification, others are accepted, but duplicates of the videos concerned (same titles, same content) immediately appear”summarize in a press release from October the association Dare to Feminism!, civil party in the criminal aspect of the case, as well as other signatory organizations. “A Sisyphean torture for the plaintiffs”who find themselves constantly confronted with their traumas.
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In July 2023, a letter of formal notice is therefore sent to Google LLC “on the basis of the law for confidence in the digital economy”reports have Monde the plaintiff's lawyer, Mr.e Romain Darrière. The latter also invokes violations of the right to image, respect for private life and human dignity. But once again, the plaintiff receives a “partial response” from Google a few weeks later, he regrets.
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