Google Updates Reviews Guidelines For Personal Information & Fake Engagement
Google has updated the Google Maps User Contributed Content Policy around prohibited and restricted content. Specifically, Google updated the definition of personal information under the Civil discourse section and fake engagement under the Deceptive content section.
Here is a link to this document.
Here is what changed:
Personal Information
The personal information section originally read, “We don’t allow content that contains private or confidential information such as credit card details, medical records, or government–issued identification—whether yours or someone else’s.”
Now this was expanded in a big way, it now reads:
Do not distribute or post personal information without consent. Personal information is defined as information that applies to a living identifiable person and disclosure could result in risk of harm if it is compromised or misused. This includes: