Google's algorithm mistakenly tagged an engineer from Switzerland as a notorious serial killer, The Sadist, which he shared the same name with. BERLIN, GERMANY - MARCH 03: In this photo illustration ...

Hacker News was buzzing with because of a report that Google was showing the image of an innocent man in a Knowledge Panel about a notorious serial killer and rapist. The subject of the wrong image ...

Switzerland-based engineer Hristo Georgiev made an eyebrow-raising discovery when googling his own name: the search engine misidentified his likeness as belonging to a serial killer who happens to ...

Google’s algorithmic failures can have dreadful consequences, from directing racist search terms to the White House in Google Maps to labeling Black people as gorillas in Google Photos. This week, the ...

Two consumer advocacy groups claim that Google has violated user privacy with its recent policy change and have asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate ...