After a barrage of criticism from advocacy groups for human rights, which are considered unsafe disclosure of user identities. social network. Google. , The search giant decided to change its policy.
Changing the rules of the news was confirmed on an account vice president. Google. Product Management Bradley Horowitz. He noted that currently only 0.1% of social network users have applied for a name change, and only 20% of them wanted to use an alias or other non-traditional names.
Horowitz said that users who wish to take advantage of the new policy, you may have to provide ' proof of his nicknames in the print media, news, articles, etc. Dr.. ' Or to offer ... ' He said that users also need to provide ' scanned official documents such as driver's license ', and that the review will take ' several days '.
Google. reported that it will destroy any documentation provided in the request for change of user name, once the experts have completed the verification process. The Corporation also made it clear that further weakening of the rules for registration may be impossible.
Experts in London human rights organization. Privacy International. stated that these changes are still too small. ' This is a step to the side, not forward,' said Gus Hosein, executive director of the group. ' We would like to see a change in policy identification, which will allow participants to. Google. both have multiple accounts. Google. could cope with it, but we are disappointed. '.
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