{"id":1862,"date":"2020-09-11T01:30:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T01:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2020-09-11T01:30:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T01:30:53","slug":"2020-elections-google-autofill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2020-elections-google-autofill\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Elections + Google + Autofill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google is removing autofill in its search bars for that target candidates or voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What Google\u2019s senior director of global policy and standards has to say: \u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re acutely aware that with this upcoming election \u2026 people have strong opinions and given the backdrop of COVID, there\u2019s a lot of questions about voting information and how that might play out against the backdrop of the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So this means no autofill supporting, opposing or endorsing candidates or for voting information. The searches can occur, but will not be autofilled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/09\/10\/google-autocomplete-election\/\">Tech Crunch | Google says it\u2019s eliminating Autocomplete suggestions that target candidates or voting<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/search\/our-latest-investments-information-quality-search-and-news\">Google | Our latest investments in information quality in Search and News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is removing autofill in its search bars for that target candidates or voting. What Google\u2019s senior director of global policy and standards has to say: \u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re acutely aware that with this upcoming election \u2026 people have strong opinions and given the backdrop of COVID, there\u2019s a lot of questions about voting information and how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1864,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}