Google Complicit In Fake Google Maps Site Listings? →

April 19, 2017 by Marc Handelman in Advertising, All is Information, Alternate Attack Vectors, Crime, Web Security, Information Security

Is Google Inc. aka Alphabet Inc (NasdaqGS: GOOG) complicit in the enormous numbers of fake links (of which, redirect users to false and/or fraudulent sites) in Google Maps? Of course they are, as, by definition, they own it. What's worse, the company possesses the in-built capability to police those links to protect it's users, but does not - in reality - do so.