"A brash website allowing users to rate Swedish teenage girls as "ugly" or "hot" based on the unauthorised use of pictures from their Facebook accounts has been reported to the police".
Source The Local, Site 'stole' pics to rank Swedish teen girls
The website is brought down now and since it was a dynamic page no content was saved in Google's Caches. Otherwise the abuse would have gone on until next indexing. Something that may take up to six months.
The owner of a website can remove content from the search engine indexes. But as victim to net abuse it is often very hard to get in touch with right person to achieve this. At big websites like Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Wordpress and Google it is mostly impossible to find a helpdesk. And the support people must know how to do it. Twitter for example directs their users to the instruction below. Which no one except for Twitter self can follow since you need to own the website.
Anyhow - here is the instruction how to remove a Google search index and cached content. If you cannot make it by your own (meaning you do not own the website) try to get in touch with the support people and send them this link.
Google's instructions in how to remove from Googles cashes
I wonder if this aspect - the cached content is included in the new law proposal from EU:
Pressrelease: European Commission sets out strategy to strengthen EU data protection rules
As a victim for net abuse - you have the right to be forgotten on Internet. Instantly!
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