I am working for a small branch of a Japanese company in Nevada. Last year, on their website, the Japanese Government published some very harmful information about the Japanese head office. Although the information is irrelevent to the operations being run in the US, Japanese people/speakers often find this information and assume that it is both current and relevent to the work that I am doing, thus causing unnecessary damage to the business.
Under Data Protection laws, my understanding is that all data held, including that by public bodies, must be kept up to date and accurate or be removed if is not. The Japanese Government information is now highly inaccurate yet they have refused to update it despite numerous requests from head office. Japanese Law waives all responsibility for public bodies, so there is no legal requirement for them to do anything.
As most major search engines are US based, would they be legally responsible to take down links to the inaccurate government pages?
Dion
