“A Google search can reveal negative information about anyone or any company. Since it's difficult to change those results, many small businesses are paying thousands to so-called reputation management companies to make negative web pages disappear.”They further explained:
“One of the only ways to get Google to permanently remove a link from its search results is with a court order from a judge. CBS News sorted through thousands of these court orders and spotted small businesses from all across America trying to clean up their reputations. But we also spotted a problem: Dozens of the court documents were fakes.”If you get a chance to watch the video it shows that the fraudsters simply cut and pasted images of the court stamps and judges signatures. Thus here is yet another example of how the authentication method of signatures and blue rubber stamps is outdated.
We have posted many articles on this type of problem before. But, I want to offer another idea? Why not set up a new “verified electronic copy” service with fees that Google and others could pay to the court to receive a verified copy … with ideally an electronic signature. The fee would very likely be passed along by Google to the persons/companies who legitimately should have their web page/link removed. And of course, the fee rule could allow for the court to issue a waver.
So accurate information, problems for the fraudsters, and fee to help courts pay for the service. What’s not to like?
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